Five crews have been picked by Coach Brown to compose the University crew squad. These crews will row together until the river is free of ice, when eight men will be droped to squad "B."

Coach Brown said last night that the rumored training trip during Spring vacation has been abandoned and that the oarsmen will return to Cambridge on the Wednesday after the opening of the reces, to begin the period of real training preceding the actual racing season.

Experienced Oars on Squad

The present five crews are made up of men who have rowed on University, Freshman, and class crews in previous years. They are stroked by John Watts '28, R. D. Bolster '28, C. McK. Norton '29, J. R. Hall '27, and J. H. Perkins '27.

Coach Brown emphasized the fact that he does not intend to pick the first boat until during the Spring vacation period, but will try to keep the crews equally balanced. The strokes, however, are to be changed from one boat to another, and it is probably that the opinions of the men in regard to the respective abilities of the various strokes will figure in Coach Brown's final choice. The timing and rhythm so essential to a stroke oar may be judged by the men who are rowing behind him as well as by the coach, according to Coach Brown.

Picking the first eight late in the season is an innovation of the new coaching regime, but one which Coach Brown has used successfully before. In former years a tentative, crew has usually been selected shortly after midyear examinations and often has remained practically intact for the entire season.

Training Table in April

Coach Brown said that there probably would be no Spring training trip for the crews, but that the men would return to the Charles for the last four days of the Spring recess. At this time serious training will begin and the oarsmen will eat at the Varsity Club.

Coach Brown thinks that it is probably that the river will break up by March 1. Coach Brown said that this date was early enough and that an ice company will not be employed to clear the river unless the break up is unusually late.

The schedule is not yet complete although a race with Pennsylvania and M. I. T. has been slated for May 21 and a race with Cornell at Ithaca on May 28. There is a tentative arrangement with the Navy to fill the Princeton date, and the Yale race at New London will come as usual in the latter part of June.

Three Oarsmen Back

Three oarsmen, Captain Geoffrey Platt '27, W. G. Saltonstall '28, and Oliver Ames ocC., veterans of last year's Yale race, are back this year. Besides these men there are promising candidates from last year's Freshman outfit and the second boat.

F. R. Sullivan '27, is expected to make the strongest bid for the coaxswain's seat in the first shell, which he coxed last year at New London. C. H. Pforahenimer '28, A. M. Pappenheimer '29, and Irving Neiman '29 are the other promising candidates for the steerman's berth.