Word: ulbrickson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...