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...nearly 40 years ago, shaggy-haired Hiram Conibear, ex-trainer of the Chicago White Sox, stood on the shore of Lake Washington and cussed through a megaphone, so loud that his University of Washington oarsmen could hear. When parents objected, Conibear confessed: "I have to cuss a little in order to bluff my way along." Washington's new crew coach didn't know the first thing about rowing...
...Conibear read up on physics and experimented at night in his living room with a broom for an oar. He decided that the traditional Oxford style, in which oarsmen put their maximum power at the end of a long layback stroke, was not only unsound but uncomfortable. He taught a short stroke with a "sock" as the blade entered the water; the men were sitting upright at the end of the stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year...
...scholarly Alvin Martin Ulbrickson the rise of Washington on the water is a matter of lifelong personal interest. He was born within sight of the Husky boathouse four years before the late famed Hiram Conibear became crew coach in 1907. He grew tough rowing daily two miles across Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow...