power like a switch, raised the stroke to 34, and the shell lifted out of the Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: Thats huge motivation for a coach. for a man, so physically and emotionally exhausted it was likely impossible to the right to represent the country in the Olympics. coast in a brand new Packard. And yes, George Lynn Dykgraaf Winner of each heat advanced to final. He joined his Washington Huskies teammates on a journey across the country toPoughkeepsie, New York, site of the national collegiate rowing championship. Husky Crew Foundation Photo. A shared moment in rowing history [2] The Australian crew was all police crew from the New South Wales Policeman's Rowing Club in Sydney who had dominated at state titles for the previous two years. Marilynn Moch crew came together, "LGB", the IRA's (coming back from many lengths down), Rielly Milne In Date: 31 August - 3 September 1960 . The Charles Day Family UCLA Film & Television Archive December of 1967, the men's rowing team from Pacific Lutheran University pulled | Timothy Egan, Author: It was emblematic of other kids during the Great Depression. crews out for almost a full length while rowing a 34 before reeling them back in Silver. Washington Rowing History: The 1930's. He elevated Bobby Mochs crew to the top boat, and demoted the stunned sophomores. day on the lake, and dined at night with all of their competitors in the same But with the almost surreal Olympic victory in pre-war Two months later all three crews were back in Poughkeepsie and swept that race too. surprised today as he was decades ago to feel the unleashed power of this crew. - "my honest belief - I think they were the best rowing crew that ever existed". Thula doesnt want you to come with us., Judy Willman, Daughter of Joe Rantz: He started to drive out the driveway and Harry and Mike, the little brothers, were looking out the back window of the car and he could just hear Harry screaming, What about Joe? The freshmen and JV's both defended their titles, but the There, Rantz and his teammates would face crews from Cornell, Columbia, and Penn -- opponents with backgrounds very different than their own. got so far ahead of the other two crews we couldn't even hear them you Jim Mueller, These are guys that if they wanna know where Germany is theyre looking at a cardboard globe. Enough", reminisced on the adventure when we asked him about it: "The Rowdown was a Feedback. heavy as some people imagine. Monica Cole The city of Seattle was only about eighty years old. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: There was this animosity that led to a bare-knuckle kind of environment. Daniel James Brown, Author: The crowd is already chanting, Deutschland, Deutschland, Deutschland. They dont actually hear the call of the start of the race. blur some of the details - the fact remains that this is the first Husky from his collection. You had the economic thing -- not knowing where your next meal is gonna come from -- and then you had the family dysfunction. Thula took a dislike to Joe almost immediately. Olympic hopes; although advancing the next day through the repechage, they This page was last edited on 9 May 2023, at 22:45. year Washington won the first 2,000 meter National Championship), to his tenure 1936 was the last year won the Harvard-Yale race in all but two of the years he coached). greatest rowing stories of all time. The Bobby Moch Family Berlin 1936 Rowing Coxed Eights Men Results Berlin 1936 Rowing Event Go Summary Rank Team Results Notes G United States of America 6:25.40 S Italy 6:26.00 B Germany 6:26.40 4 Great Britain Hume would race. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: There is this element of redemption but theres also this element of achieving a goal through trust and brotherhood. The UW Narrator: There was no relief from the winters long daily practices, punishing workouts, and countless time trials. Why they won cannot be attributed to individuals, he said. Despite everything theyd already achieved, the boys had to win one more time to become the first Washington crew to represent the United States in an Olympics. Explore the journey of the University of Washington men's crew team to the 1936Olympics in this photo gallery. Germany, Italy, and Britain all moved ahead, with the In 1936, nine working-class young men from the University of Washington took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin. is here - 1936 Olympics: What Might Have Been . blur, with Hume bringing the stroke rate up to an unheard of 44, the crowd Radio Announcer (Archival): The United States is in front with 50 meters to go! Youre talking about hours of work at a relatively high heart rate. They were grunts. UW to be displayed in the Husky Den as a tribute to the 1936 Olympic team. Meet the boys who took home the medals. Statistics It was four, five hundred meters from the end and Penn still had three quarters of a length and then Moch said, 'Lets go.' way the final race played out. stowing away in baggage cars, Al Ulbrickson and Tom Bolles, and driving coast to the time. Washington is three lengths back from us but theyre gonna come eat us alive. The crew had Ulbrickson's now The competition was dominated by the hosts, Germany, who medaled in every event and took five of the seven gold medals. He just stayed cool and calm and then just mowed them down. Daniel James Brown, Author: The boys went out and just sort of explored the streets. also led to great achievements on the water, some on a global stage like the '36 crew in action - they're scheduled to row this afternoon". Radios across the world were tuned in on August 14, 1936 when nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took gold at Hitler's Olympics. personal friendships that last lifetimes and cross generations. the inside lanes from the wind is not depicted, and played a large role in the Added 6/16/17 by Eric Cohen. From Poughkeepsie the men traveled to Princeton New Radio Announcer (Archival): The Huskies of Washington proceed to sweep the river, surging to victory to become the ace candidate for the Olympics. [2][3] This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown. Ezra Carlson entered college? sphinx-like face never as much as quivered. Rinda Ulbrickson About a 100 meters later and Washington and Italy are From left: Don Hume, Joseph Rantz, George E. Hunt, James B. McMillin, John G. White, Gordon B. Adam, Charles Day, and Roger. This conversation It doesnt happen every day. Loyal Shoudy was finally made available in the late fall of 1967, beginning Tom Bolles and Al Ulbrickson sporting Fedora hats and Did he know about crew before he Will Pickard Harrison King I mean, he -- this was gonna happen. Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics Men's eight, "Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights", "Why Do We Race 2000m? That is only gonna happen if every man in that boat trusts the others on a very fundamental level. When writing the men's 100-year history of Washington Rowing in 2002 and 2003, I Kyla Ryan The slowest qualifier was Germany, the second Chittenden locks and - University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections They had each others backs. Sandy Erickson Stock Footage - University of Washington beats California in a boat race in The Rowdown - If You Loved Boys in the Boat, Don't Miss And a shell like the Husky Clipper (and practiced strategy of "Keep the stroke down and then mow 'em down in the of 1935, the following description on the back: "Washington's Crew Shell one of a kind. Every time you take a stroke, you are counting on everybody else in the boat to be putting his whole weight -- full strength -- into that stroke. crews were together, we started out, just going 26, 27 - just going home - we Peter Mallory, Rowing Historian: Nobody challenged Ulbrickson. 13 August. I remember his words exactly He made clear to his team that the upcoming season would be their most grueling yet, and added a sixth day of training to every week. importantly though is the lack of topography; the promontory that shaded The Boys in the Boat, the '36 crew, and how rowing in the 30's compares to today? Now he's preparing the U.S. Men's Four for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Italy is ahead So he found himself basically living on his own for the first time when he was just ten years old. the Washington freshmen and lightweights with Bud Raney from 1937 - 1939, then the deal with PLU went like this: But Cal and the rest of the field soon caught up. organizer behind the effort, gaining the cooperation of Chuck Alm (UW Rowing Recorded Narrator: Eight days before the gold medal race, Ulbrickson grounded his team. postponed an afternoon time trial on the course because it was so windy and Stewards), Al Ulbrickson, Fil Leanderson, and numerous UW administrators. eight with coxswain 8 men. Germany and Italy won the other Robert Moch early life of Joe Rantz and the story of the 1936 University of Bob Ernst, Rowing Coach: He had a natural feel for the rhythm of the water and how fast the boat would move. The Laszl Antos Family Collection Dad was sinking from boat to boat. PLU team at the time, and also a collaborator with Stan Pocock on his book "Way Gold. In the summer of 1936, nine working class young men from the University of Washington took the rowing world and the nation by a storm when they captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin. a bit embellished - there is no other record of the team ever meeting Hitler - but the story is accurate from the personal perspective Nord was the He was going to bring out onto the world this new healed Germany, this reunified Germany, a stronger Germany, but also, he insisted, a peaceful Germany. They sure have a swell place.. Hudson river with this crew prior to that race, a defining moment for the team. The race format was similar to today. A total of 313 rowers from 24 nations competed at the Berlin Games: Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Narrator: In June, the national championship in Poughkeepsie loomed. Rhonda Bingham | Pos Competitors NOC; 1: . The Pocock Family Carolyn Marr Johnny White writes a little note in his diary that night. Italy and Germany had turned in relatively slow qualifying times; they were assigned lanes one and two, protected from the wind. Come on! Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: These guys were nobodies. Seattle Times as the team was celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2017, and it See the team roster, as listed by boat. Official Rowing results from the Berlin 1936 Olympics. Radio Announcer (Archival): The American crew appears to be fairly well in the rear. He was very competitive. before Hitler and 120,000 frantic German fans, and attended some of the games. Youre sitting there going, Oh, oh no. Stub was having a very hard time making ends meet. In the German community of Grnau, 75,000 spectators packed the shores of the Langer See, weathering the wind and rain to watch the final rowing event of the Berlin Olympics. The University of Washington, Husky Crew Now she's retired and is trying to adjust to "real life.". truck arrived in April in Tacoma to pick up the now well-worn shell, where it See full results. The hosts objective was not simply to welcome the world to Berlin, but to put on a show of national unity and pride unlike any the world had ever seen. slowest was Italy. leans on varsity cox and friend George Morry, while Earl Schenck, frosh cox, Narrator: Over the ten-day crossing, Don Hume, always prone to respiratory infections, began struggling with a deep chest cold that persisted as the ship took them through the English Channel to Germany. Narrator: The teenager lived alone for two years. George Pocock once Official results of the rowing eight with coxswain 8 men event at the Berlin Summer Olympics. Roger Morris, cox Bob Moch in front. Tyee photo. Luke Khoury The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. Bob Moch Photo. that intensity was re-channeled into a saying that became the motto of the crew: interceded and asked the coach to get Hume back in the boat. But what they actually are, are part of a global stage. Germany, the crew became legendary. Only Moch was a senior. Daniel James Brown, Author: Al Ulbrickson was a pretty hard man. . Most They were full of Oxford and Cambridge boat race veterans. The George "Shorty" Hunt Family Note: Watch a seemed to weigh so much is because of their narrow gunwales, which Narrator: The national championship was June 22nd. Mason Pollock Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: Within a thousand meters, they had started to move back on the field. He was very smart, but he did not see himself as smart. When he was four years old, he watched his mother die of lung cancer. Lenville P. O'Donnell The winner of each race advanced to the final; the other boats were eliminated. Scholarship Plaque from 1934 through 1936 with the highest grades on the team, The physical and methodically stroking a 28, the crews in front, including California and Bob Moch was varsity coxswain in 1935 and 1936, coached Featuring interviews with Brown, historians and surviving children of the 1936 Washington team, The Boys of 36 recounts their unexpected victory and the obstacles they overcame to achieve it, giving hope to a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of theGreat Depression. And he was really pushy, you know. In the final the Germans and the Swiss took the lead from the beginning but four of the latters crew, Hermann Betschart, Alex and Hans Homberger, and Karl Schmid, had already competed in the finals for the coxed and coxless fours that day and their exhaustion hampered them. Just five feet seven and 119 pounds, Moch was a coxswain, tucked in the rear of the racing shell, where light weight was an advantage. Daniel James Brown: Al Ulbrickson was watching from a balcony nearby with George Pocock and he fought his way through the crowd trying to get to the boys to congratulate them. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS rest of the men would pull him down the course if they could just have his The second photo captures a finishing sprints" was executed to the letter by his team, casting all three years of coaching behind him. was then transferred to a shop to be reconditioned and rehabilitated by Karl This was the ninth appearance of the event. Its reporting from the spring of 1936, had John Conger rowing in the varsity eight's bow position, right where he would have been on July 5 th, had he not fallen ill. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: They were a quarter way through the race and they are behind the field. Ulbrickson thought about it for a bit and he decided this was a case where he had to trust the instincts of the boys. As had always been the case at the Olympics, the coxed eights was the signature event of the rowing program in Los Angeles; even in the midst of the Great Depression, eight nations managed to send crews to compete. Ira Spiegel But Don Hume was special. Narrator: Going into the 1936 rowing season,George Pocock had been a fixture at the University of Washington for more than two decades. Tyee photo. Someone once said of it, 'its surely one of the The The men stayed in their The repechage had 11 boats. The team worked out twice a nevertheless got a decent start. slowest qualifiers in the most protected lanes (this was challenged by the And for somebody like Joe Rantz that made all the difference. Tyee photo. the boat deck of the ship for safe transport to Europe. Ray Willman They had been second in 20. Here, her granddaughter shares Lucy's story. At his side was his '26 classmate and friend finished out of the medals in the final. John D. Bolcer Thank you Steve McDowell for providing these photos August 14, 1936. The quartering headwind was now evenly felt, at about the instant Hume and his And it was somewhat typical because people felt like; I just dont have the means to, to give food to this child. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: Its painful. At a mile and a half, Washington turned on the Hannah Palin rhythm back, to which Ulbrickson reportedly said "Well he doesn't pull and - World and Olympic champions. Hume brought the stroke down to a 36, along the now Burke-Gilman trail: As the state and much of the nation listened in on their radios, the Americans paddled to the start line. Daniel James Brown, Author: Ulbrickson showed up at Roosevelt High School and he noticed this big, tall, blond kid on the gymnastics equipment. Daniel James Brown, Author: Suddenly Don Hume pops his head up and starts rowing beautifully. two month timeline. In the opening round only Great Britain came close to the Americans time; every other nation was at least six seconds slower. David Clay Large, Historian: Theyre given uninterrupted training. Daniel James Brown, Author: There were shoving matches. Peter Mallory: He could go puh-puh-puh-puh. were taped, but when we sat down in October of 2002, the topic was 1936 and the have been memorable without the Olympic victory. Bob Moch, the '36 Olympics Judy Willman, Daughter of Joe Rantz: It was almost like it was effortless. Judy Willman, Daughter of Joe Rantz: Im not even sure before that that he really had his eye on college. crew began to sprint. Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. newsreel of the V8 event here, including a jam packed spectator train running Poughkeepise Public Library District minutes long: was a critically acclaimed, masterfully researched and produced The competition continued to use the three-round format used in 1932, with two main rounds (semifinals and a final) and a repechage. that special crews experience - still to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowing_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics&oldid=1121309362, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 11 November 2022, at 16:45. Of course I know I probably let my aggressive interest in this Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: The Washington crew had a horrible start. 1936 senior crew managers Bob Edwards and Bob Lund. Narrator: Hitler expected the German teams would dominate the Games. Moch Photo. Deutscher Ruderverband E.V. 33-34. Narrator: positioning themselves as favorites to return to the Olympics, now just a year away. And they get it in their heads that theyre gonna go visit the President. 1960 Summer Olympics; Rowing; Eights, Men | | Event type. The odds of these blue-collar boys, living in the worst time in American history, becoming sports heroes, are just astronomical. the fall of 1966, Steve Nord, the manager of the Husky Union Building (commonly Its a perfect connection. shell the UW delivered? Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: The Americans walk into this thing, thinking theyre in a race. FAQ Steve Chapin Foundation photo: Erickson collection. All were merged into one smoothly working machine, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted. Peter Mallory, Rowing Historian: George Pocock, being a Brit himself, was rightly concerned about the British entry. the lakeshore changed, disrupting the lee in which Germany and Italy were racing. Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: These kids were very representative of the Pacific Northwest, which was raw, newly shaped. Jim Ojala, the captain of the The freshmen and JV won their races easily, and the varsity Three Donaldson + Callif, LLP What about Joe?. Henry Penn Burke, Olympic Rowing Committee (Archival): The crew of the Washington University, I want to congratulate you on winning the championship of American eight-oared crews. 12 August. Don Hume would just do his job and all the guys super respected him for that. Then his older brother invited him to come live in Seattle. Narrator: From coast to coast, in the 1930s, rowing was one of the nations most popular sports. In the final 400 meters, the Huskies walked through the The Husky Clipper. Daniel James Brown, Author: George Pocock was so much more than a boat builder. In 1963, the Pacific and was VBC manager his senior year. Pennsylvania crew as Hume took the stroke up to a forty, and they won by a Narrator: It was all overseen by a coach, who just a decade earlier, had been a star Washington rower himself. The freshmen and JV won their races easily, and the varsity finished the sweep with a three length victory over California, the defending champions. Radio Announcer (Archival): California leads Washington by a length, approaching the river bridge at the three-mile mark. They had been together as a team for more than ten years. Reaching in, finding something. And thats exactly what Bob Moch was so good at. Canada's three-Games podium streak ended. On June 22, 1936 the varsity boys beat rival Cal in Poughkeepsie and advanced to the Olympic trials in Princeton in hopes of qualifying for Berlin. Washington Rowing: The 1936 He barely said anything in the launch. Washington was And they are sponsored by the government. Husky Den, and in a greater sense the student union building" Nord wrote in great), but it seems appropriate to get this first part published to hear one of Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. Two weeks later, Princeton, New Jersey was the site of the Olympic Trials. Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The men stayed at the New York Fumes in the mill damaged his lungs. article was written. Vuk Matovic Bob Moch says this is not the best the region. Daniel James Brown, Author: Mostly, they were very proud of not having let one another down. setting goals, and then striving to achieve them together, has created countless Robert Karlen Radio Announcer (Archival): The historic Poughkeepsie regatta draws seven varsity shells to the starting line and a crowd of spectators to the sideline. Daniel James Brown: They found themselves living at this Gold & Ruby Mine out in Idaho. course, don't miss our history section - Thank you Paul Zuchowski, HUB historian, for the pre-Rowdown timeline and Day, Adam, White, McMillin, Hunt, Rantz, Hume, Moch. Washington. Theyd won in 08, 12. Stephanie Errante Associated Press Germany. only spanned the last 200 - 300 meters, not the full length. Athletic Club rowing quarters on Travers Island north of New York - with time The boat slows down. the coxswain. In June 2013 a book entitled The Boys in the Boat, by author Daniel James Brown, chronicled the story of the University of Washington crew and became a bestseller in the United States. Their story takes place during a time in history when when the country needed heroes and much like the great Jesse Owens, these heroes inspired a nation.The first test for this crew came in April on Lake Washington. Narrator: The freshmen champions returned to the shell house as sophomores to train for the upcoming 1935 spring racing season. The Italians settled for silver while Germany took bronze, making the eights one of only two rowing events in Berlin that they did not win. Narrator: The varsity crew was named four months before the Olympics. Eric Cohen Bobby Moch was the coxswain, Don Hume was the stroke oar, with Joe Rantz and Shorty Hunt seated behind him. Poughkeepsie. an adventure that to this day remains one of the more remarkable in NW Rowing man and every woman who has ever picked up a white blade at Washington, and For the first time, he could live something close to a normal life. This conversation. I think he saw an open door and he decided he would go through it. 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