Word: pocock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlikely, though, that it will ever be that way again. Too many crews, notably Northeastern, have had too much success with ergometers, foreign shells and German rigs to ignore any new developments in either rowing technique or equipment. After Pennsylvania's horrendous experiences with its new Pocock super-cedar shell this year, even the reliability of American equipment may become suspect. Unfortunately for American college coaches, and American college athletic budgets, it has frequently become a matter of innovate or be left three lengths behind...
...Harvard's heavyweights used a Swiss-made Stampfli shell, rigged German-style, with the stroke and bow oars on the port side. By this Spring, almost everybody was using foreign shells with German rigs. Everybody, that is, except Navy coach Carl Ullrich. Ullrich's boys use a standard, American Pocock shell, rigged in the standard fashion, with standard American oars...
...teammates tried to add more power, struggling to regain the half-length lead they had taken off the start, but it was going to be tough. Harvard was moving, and Navy, on the far lane, was only three-quarters of a length behind. Suddenly, Kaufmann noticed that the new Pocock shell in which he was sitting was beginning to ride a little lower in the water...