Sentences with phrase «oarsmen on»

Not exact matches

The rowing coach at Orange Coast has only two years to work on his oarsmen, but eight of them together can beat many four - year schools

He had fought for good health on and off for a number of years with the same indomitable spirit that led him to many a victory on the river both as oarsman and the architect, as Head Coach, of a record series of Boat Race victories for Oxford over rivals, Cambridge in the 70s and 80s.

The periscopes are all trained on Yale's varsity eight and it may take a real torpedo to stop Jim Rathschmidt's oarsmen

On Massachusetts» gloomy and rain - spattered Lake Quinsigamond, the world champion oarsmen from Germany's Ratzeburg Rowing Club (SI, May 20) were pitted against last year's IRA champions from Cornell and 13 other crews in the annual eastern sprints.

Many Oxford oarsmen go on to compete internationally: in Sydney four Gold medallists came from Oxford, and at the Athens Games in 2004 Oxford oarsmen brought home two Gold medals and a Silver.

I walk onto a rocky pinnacle and look down on the murmuring river, where an oarsman steers a blue raft carrying a red - jacketed fly fisherman.

This remarkable craft, rowed by 12 oarsmen with its Dutch inventor, Cornelius Drebbel, and a few other passengers on board, sailed for three hours underwater from Westminster to Greenwich.

Assyrian reliefs from the 8th century BC show Phoenician fighting ships, with two levels of oars, fighting men on a sort of bridge or deck above the oarsmen, and some sort of ram protruding from the bow.