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...Richard A. ("Old Dick") Glendon, 86, oldtime rowing coach whose crews at Navy and Columbia paced eastern racing for 27 years (1904-1931); in Hyannis, Mass. A fisherman by trade, Dick Glendon taught himself to scull on Boston's Charles River, developed the famed "Glendon stroke" (a long layback...
...arrived on the Charles with a crew which used a style very similar to Bolles' an ideally matched crew superbly conditioned, and trained to stroke identically. Belles, on the other hand, had a varsity weeks behind the Tigers on practice, with a number five oar who takes absolutely no layback a bow and seven man who both dip their right shoulders before the catch, an da stroke who rows the lowest beat in the east. Yet the Bolles-coached crew won, has gone right on winning since that race, and probably will continue to do so until the season ends...
...Washington system, on the other hand, concentrates on obtaining a powerful pull by getting a long reach at the beginning of the stroke, and finishing with a slight enough layback so that a quick and smooth recovery is possible...
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...
...Creek, which runs by the farm. At Penn he was captain of the crew, later sculled for Penn A. C. He was never any great shakes as an oar until he worked out a stroke which no one could beat or imitate-a jerky, robot-like chop with no layback, which gets his blades in & out from 38 to 45 times a minute (average sculler's stroke: 28 to 32). Until this winter, when he decided he was going stale, he trained all year round on Rancocas Creek, racing against a stop watch strapped between his toes...