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...West Coast the home-grown male often seems to run to an angular, muscular 6 ft. 3 in. 175-pounder who likes to lose himself in the anonymity of a number in an eight-oared shell. Each February hordes of them report to Washington Coach Al Ulbrickson and California's Ky Ebright; each June one or the other of the Western crews manages to give the East a rowing lesson. Only twice in the past 18 years has the West failed to win the big Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Poughkeepsie...
...complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect the West's standing. Before last week's race undefeated Washington had been picked as the favorite by nine of the twelve coaches, including Washington's Ulbrickson himself. California was the second choice...
...race, a 5-in. downpour started flash floods on the tributary Muskingum which flows into the course a furlong below the scheduled starting line. By race time, 60-ft. logs and huge masses of debris were sweeping down the Muskingum and onto the course. Even before the downpour struck, Ulbrickson, whose Washington crew had drawn an inside lane, complained that the Muskingum flow "hits you broadside like the wash from a big boat...
Washington had swept the river for the third time, a trick they first turned in 1936, the year they went on to become Olympic champions. Ulbrickson's boys had a way of shining brightest in an Olympic year...
Dangerous Rival. The Olympic rival that Ulbrickson worried most about was Harvard, which had its own private "sweep" last week. Coached by a scholarly ex-Washington oarsman,* Tom Bolles, Harvard set a new course record on Connecticut's Thames River to whip Yale for the tenth year in a row. This week, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, N.J., the Huskies will face Harvard, Yale and eight other crews to determine who will row for the U.S. in the London Olympic games...