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Today's race could be the main stumbling block to repeating such an outstanding season. Unfortunately Coach Laury Coolidge has so far been unsuccessful in finding the best combination of oarsmen In fact any combination that could consistently win inter-squad races has been extremely elusive. The eight racing as the varsity today was only Thursday the J.V. boat...
...have been national college champions six times, took Olympic titles in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Last week, attired in his traditional battered hat, stubby (5 ft. 6 in.) Ky Ebright was still bustling around the California boathouse on the Oakland Estuary, roaring instructions and encouragement as he drove his oarsmen through his last season...
...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 wake...
Though rowing styles have changed little in his 36 years as coach, oarsmen have. Today they are bigger and row faster. "It's harder to get into school now; yet the enrollment is larger, so our selection is better in all ways," he explained. "The boys are generally taller and stronger, too. The 6-ft. 4-in. and 6-ft. 5-in. guys in the middle of the shell are common now. In fact, it's getting harder all the time to find little coxswains...
...late opening of the Charles may impose a serious strain on the crews, however, because of the short time available to get in shape. But indoor practice during the winter may have toughened the oarsmen enough to overcome their belated start...