In and out dipped the red blades and the brown, forward and back bent the straining bodies, back and forth like shuttles slid the two red-faced, shouting coxswains.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour
But in fact by this means we are always a match for them; and, best of all, we have a larger and higher class of native coxswains and sailors among our own citizens than all the rest of Hellas.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
Pair-oar races were established at Oxford in 1839. They were rowed with coxswains until 1847. At Cambridge similar pairs were founded in 1844, and were rowed from the first without coxswains.
"Boating"
W. B. Woodgate Commentator: Harvey Mason