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150-POUND CREW COACH JESDALE: Ίt was my job to goad them' • Cornell's most successful team, 150- pound varsity crew, was beaten for the first time since 1963, on May 14, after 16 straight collegiate victories. It lost to Harvard in the Easterns. "How did the boys take their loss, coach?" "Not happily," replied Todd Jesdale '61, 26-year-old-doctoral candidate in English, who had never before seen his varsity licked since he became coach three years ago. "It was a quiet bus ride home. I was quiet because the feeling was gnawing at me that we were a better crew than Harvard. Why did we lose? I should have pushed them harder. It was a lousy spring to be sure but grousing about it didn't help. These boys are wonderful young men and splendid oarsmen but too much winning may have softened them a bit. Not physically, now . . . crew is just like any sport, there's more to it than the muscle building, the striving for precision, the long rows for endurance - a big part is attitude, the will to win. You've got to be mean, tough and nasty - Determined. It was my job to goad them when they needed goading." Not many coaches have a record in the bank to make them unhappy about a first, a second and a third in the championships. Todd expects a lot from his boys and they have come up with a lot for him. "He's a good coach and a fine fellow," says Stork Sanford. "I think he's done his best job this year." "Todd, how do you account for Cornell's long history of success in rowingour conditions are certainly far from ideal?" "Oh, our conditions are not too bad," he mused. "We have Teagle tanks, Collyer Boathouse - just beautiful! The Lake has been pretty awful this spring . . . those awful, persistent winds - worse than usual . . . but we have a tradition in crew at Cornell that is self-nourishing. It goes back to the Courtney days, maybe before. All the recruiting we do is in the freshman registration line each Fall, same as the BY ROBERT J. KANE '34 heavies. Our own boys do the selling. It's easy. Cornell crew is big. We get 100-125 boys out for freshman crew. So does Stork. Only a very few ever rowed before. They come out because it is a compliment to be asked to be a part of Cornell crew. "The biggest thing we have going for us is Stork Sanford. He is Cornell crew. That goes for the lightweights as well as the heavies. He is a great coach and a great man. Everything I know or feel about the sport comes either directly or indirectly from Stork. He is mild, a gentleman of almost awesome stature, but he's tough too. He makes changes in boatings no one else would dare to. He knows how to put a boatload together, that man. And he wants nothing but to win. His changes are always thoughtful, responsible, but he makes them audaciously - even when he is winning. He has an incredible eye for detail. "Our style is basically Stork's. We are a little shorter on the finish and we have little layback; a little briefer at the catch - and perhaps slightly slower with the hands coming out of bow. We row a little higher than the heavies. "Technique is only a part of what makes Cornell a success on the water. It's Stork's prestige, his very presence; it's Cornell crew. Even in our poor years we can make the best of them hump pretty hard to beat us. We're sound." Todd rowed lightweight crew for his four Cornell undergraduate years, never was better than junior varsity. He is 6 feet 2 and had no trouble keeping within the top limit of 155 pounds. He was a high school hockey player and football end of miniscule distinction in Winchester, Mass. He liked sports and rowing seemed to be his best chance in college. "It was a lucky day for me when I became associated with Cornell rowing. There's something mystical about it ... there's an absolute ecstasy in making a boat move well. Only an oarsman knows the feeling. When a boat is moving fast and each man is pulling with rhythmic precision and power there is an aesthetic joy about it only those of us in the cult know. "A coach never thinks of his crew as a well oiled machine, the old cliche. He knows each man too well, knows his idiosyncrasies. He never forgets they are eight different young men. He knows it takes mental effort to pull in unison. He knows, too, that they know they have a commitment to each other. "I thought of that most poignantly at Worcester last Saturday when I watched our jayvees come through and win in the last 500 meters. We were behind by half a length at that point and then something magical happened. They started out after first place MIT, passing Harvard and Princeton on the way. They brought the stroke up to 36, then 38-not a hitch, beautiful bladework. They were flying. Right across the finish line in beautiful style, a half length in front. And then three of them passed out completely. And yet they looked powerful at the finish, just seconds before. Incredible. "I've learned a lot on this job, about people, about things, about courage. I've even learned why trophies are made in the form of cups: to dip water out of ditches in the middle of the night to fill the leaking radiator of our old shell-carrying 1953 Buick, as we did every few minutes with the Geiger Cup on the way home after we had won at Cambridge last year. I don't understand, though, how Stork Sanford wins the toss every time . . . We flip to see who pays for the coffee. He never loses." Big Red Lacrosse Team Shines BY THE SIDELINER' • An unbeaten lacrosse team - in its first 10 starts - tops an above-average Cornell spring sports season through the middle of May. Other teams were also doing well, or were either at .500 or in the black. Lacrosse The Ivy League is tough and balanced this season. The Big Red has beaten Yale, Harvard, and Pennsylvania by two goals, and Brown by one. Coach Ned Harkness' team won its first 10 straight. However, it 26 Cornell A lumni News
would have to beat Princeton and Dartmouth in the closing games to clinch the first Cornell Ivy title in lacrosse in history, as well as an undefeated season. A split would earn Cornell a tie for the crown with Brown. The Red, with star attackman Bruce Cohen '66 of Baldwin ailing with an ankle injury, had its troubles against Harvard before rallying from a 3-1 deficit to prevail, 7-5, in Cambridge. Scoring two goals apiece were Harry Orr '67 of Port Credit, Ont, Doug Zirkle '66 of Erie, Pa., and Tom Quaranto '67 of Huntington. Tom Harkness '68 of Ithaca, son of the coach, scored the go-ahead goal in the fourth period to give Cornell the impetus for a 9-7 victory over Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Cohen led the winners with three goals and two assists. The Red rallied from a four-goal deficit to edge Brown, 11-10, in a dramatic battle before 5,500 in Ithaca. The loss was the first Ivy setback for the Bruins in six starts. Cornell trailed, 7-3, midway in the second period before Orr began scoring with his submarine slingshots. Orr had four (of Cornell's first six) goals. Cohen tied the score at 9-9 early in the fourth period on a stumbling shot from his knees, similar to his Yale goal which tied that game, also 9-9, and Zirkle had the go-ahead score from 15 feet out. Colgate gave the Cornellians fits at Hamilton, and the Red had to rally from a 7-4 deficit to win, 8-7, on a late goal by George Gould '67 of Freeport. Gould had five goals in all, while Cohen scored twice. Norton Lamb '66 of Falmouth, Me., joined Cohen with three goals apiece to lead Cornell to a 14-4 rout of Hobart before 6,500 fans in Ithaca. Cohen also had three assists. Orr, Quaranto, and Gould scored two goals apiece. It's going to be some time before Cornell fans will get a chance to crow more over a Syracuse triumph than in the Big Red's 10th win, a 19-2 massacre of the Orange in the rain at Ithaca. Quaranto had four goals, Barry Irwin '67 of Bethesda, Md., and Gould had three apiece. ROWING Goes Trophy: 1, 2, 3 Carnegie Cut: 1, 4, 3 Easterns: 3, —,6 Penn: 2, 2, 2 Sat. June 18 IRA, at Syracuse 150-POUND ROWING Pennsylvania: 1, 1, 1 Princeton: 1, 1, 1 GeigerCup: 1, 1, 1 Dartmouth 1, 1, 1 Easterns 2, 1, 3 BASEBALL Cornell 9, Rochester 1 Rochester 6, Cornell 3 Cornell 5, E. Stroudsburg 0 Cornell 6, Columbia 4 Princeton 4, Cornell 1 Harvard 3, Cornell 1 Colgate 4, Cornell 3 Rutgers 3, Cornell 0 Cortland 6, Cornell 2 Colgate 4, Cornell 0 Cornell 7, Yale 5 Cornell 5, C. W. Post 1 Cornell 4, Army 0 Brown 5, Cornell 3 Cornell 11, Syracuse 7 Penn 1, Cornell 0 Cornell 7, Navy 2 Cornell 10, Scranton 3 Dartmouth 5, Cornell 3 FRESHMAN BASEBALL Ithaca College 17, Cornell 15 Cortland 7, Cornell 4 Cornell 4, Syracuse 2 Cornell 5, Broome Tech 2 Colgate 10, Cornell 4 Syracuse 6, Cornell 4 Ithaca College 11, Cornell 10 Cortland 9, Cornell 3 Cornell 14, Manlius 5 Spring Sports, 1966 TRACK Cornell 78, Colgate 75 Cornell 119, Penn 35 HEPS: 4th place, 28 pts. Princeton 82 V£, Cornell 72Vi IC 4A's: Tied for 5th place, 15 pts. FRESHMAN TRACK Cornell 83, Colgate 71 Cornell 112, Mohawk Valley Com. Col. 42 Cornell 107, Penn State 47 LACROSSE Cornell 24, Cortland 1 Cornell 13, Yale 11 Cornell 7, Harvard 5 Cornell 9, Penn 7 Cornell 11, Brown 10 Cornell 8, Colgate 7 Cornell 14, Hobart 4 Cornell 19, Syracuse 2 Cornell 8, Princeton 7 Cornell 21, Dartmouth 5 FRESHMAN LACROSSE Cornell 14, Cortland 10 Hobart 12, Cornell 7 Cornell 11, Colgate 4 Syracuse 15, Cornell 2 Cornell 8, Colgate 0 Syracuse 18, Cornell 7 TENNIS Cornell 7, Columbia 2 Yale 7, Cornell 2 Harvard 8, Cornell 1 Cornell 9, Rutgers 0 Cornell 7, Brown 2 Cornell 5, Army 4 Cornell 5, Colgate 4 Cornell 9, Syracuse 0 Princeton 8, Cornell 1 Cornell 5, Dartmouth 4 FRESHMAN TENNIS Colgate 7, Cornell 2 Cornell 5, Rochester 2 Cornell 9, Broome Tech 0 Colgate 8, Cornell 1 Cornell 7, Syracuse 2 Cornell 5, Syracuse 1 GOLF Cornell 5, Syracuse 2 Cornell 7, Rutgers 0 Cornell 6, Harvard 1 Cornell 6, Colgate 1 Cornell 5, Williams 2 Easterns: 3rd place tie, 811 Columbia 4, Cornell 3 Army 5, Cornell 2 FRESHMAN GOLF Cornell 4, Colgate 3 Cornell 4, Colgate 3 Cornell 5, Cortland 0 Cornell 4, Broome Tech 1 Cornell 6, Oswego State 1 Baseball Hitting continues to be the main problem for Cornell's baseball team. The pitching, especially that by Jim Purcell '67 of Barryville, has been superb. But the batting has been terrible, with a cumulative team average of .220. A bright spot was the 4-0 triumph over Army, previously unbeaten in Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League play. Pur- cell scattered four hits and struck out 13 in a brilliant performance. The low spot was a six-game losing streak which saw the Red's record drop to 7-9 at one stage. Best hitters so far have been outfielder Bill Giezendanner '67 of Hillsdale, N.J., third baseman Dan Walker '68 of Milford, Conn., and Ivan Tylawsky '67 of Duryea, Pa. Probably the most frustrating game was the Brown affair, in which a five-run fifth inning led the Bruins to a 5-3 victory at Hoy Field, the day after Cornell blanked Army and moved into contention in the EIBL with a 3-2 record. June 1966 27
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