Word: layback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ebright started early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their...
...Using the traditional English stroke with its long layback, a favored Cambridge crew led Oxford and its American-style oarsmen all the way along the 4-mile-374-yd. course on the rain-and-wind-roiled Thames and won by 3½ lengths...
...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...