Marilynn Moch, Daughter of Bobby Moch: My dad liked to play mind games on the others, primarily coxswains, but also the guys that were rowing if he could think of a way to do it. Judy Willman, Daughter of Joe Rantz: Bobby Moch knew that if something didnt change, everything was lost. An accomplished oarsman as well, Pocock became a valued advisor to Washington coaches along the way, including Al Ulbrickson. won the Harvard-Yale race in all but two of the years he coached). Deutscher Ruderverband E.V. With Italy second and Germany third, Great Britain fourth and Hungary fifth. A Phi Beta Kappa student, Moch had endured a childhood racked by asthma, in a logging town in southwestern Washington. Washington Joel Goodman & Benjamin Krause, Advisors The Husky Clipper. Here, head coach Al Ulbrickson directs his boys during practice on July 10, 1936. This was when he had to do it. He shivered uncontrollably, and he appeared mentally and physically wan. He was very stern. A few weeks later, the Huskies cruised past the competition in the Olympic trials. Robert Moch Narrator: Ulbrickson spoke to the national press after the race. Seattle Times as the team was celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2017, and it setting goals, and then striving to achieve them together, has created countless The rowing team that the host nation brought to the narrow lake, Langer-See, was no exception. Don Hume would just do his job and all the guys super respected him for that. (Return to the corrected sentence.) For those of us fortunate enough to have rowed at Washington during our college With American Legion posts and Chambers of Commerce throughout the state chipping in, enough money was collected in three days to send the team to Berlin. [3] They were selected in toto with their attendance funded by the NSW Police Federation. White, son of John White '38, recalling his father, here - Hes the guy whos leading the dance step. On July 5th they met a polished The race began in typical fashion for the Huskies. He remembered being at her funeral. On July 5th they met a polished Pennsylvania Club Crew, New York Club Crew, and Ky Ebright's California crew for the right to represent the country in the Olympics. Narrator: By June of 1934, at the end of his first year on campus, Joe Rantz had emerged as one of the strongest rowers on the freshman crew. One of the guys sits actually in the chair that Roosevelt sometimes delivers his fireside chats from. the line about ten feet in front of Italy, with Germany third. leader, Germany, at least a length up. I recently re-visited some of the Canada won the rowing women's eight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, storming to an early lead and holding off New Zealand over the final 200 meters on Thursday. The men's eights competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place at Grnau Regatta Course, near Berlin, Germany. was always interested in athletics and there was only one place I could go." occasions to talk about his time as both a coxswain and a coach, from 1933 (the /* fbq('track', 'PageView'); */ And people were rightly intimidated by the way they rowed. Moch had graduated, but went on to coach for the University of Washington soon after. and at the center of this adventure was the '36 Husky Clipper. Through various delays and logistical issues, the Radio Announcer: 40 meters to goand they have half a boat length on Italy! "each as vital and valuable as the other." "This crew was like a band of brothers" says Bob Moch German oarsmen, however, dominated on the water, capturing five gold medals and one silver in the six races preceding the eight-oared final. The repechage had 11 boats. This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown. Stephanie Errante David Clay Large Washington won their heat against what Ulbrickson At the starting line, American coxswain Bob Moch looked anxiously into the face of Don Hume. The L.G. In Tom Bolles, and at his other side was the quiet master, George Pocock. Very hard working kid -- very tough. Ulbrickson puts him back in the boat, the boat goes faster but then it goes slower the next day. The strategy, once again, was to race from behind. Sportswriters called him the 'Dour Dane.' Most observers thought they would be named to the top varsity boat -- the crew that would give Washington its best chance to get to its first-ever Olympics in Berlin the following year. He had a very hard time shaking them off. the region. Menu Fermer le menu crew had fallen behind, only to gain it back. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he was planning for war. The postcard is dated Aug. 12, 1936, and reads Narrator: The freshmen champions returned to the shell house as sophomores to train for the upcoming 1935 spring racing season. Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: Swing comes when you really have that harmony. The German team won the first five races. Nancy Mansbach Fighting the quartering headwind in lane six, the Huskies So he finally asks George Pocock. methodically stroking a 28, the crews in front, including California and Because the Germans asked for no rights fees and offered their engineers and technical apparatus for free, Americans were able to listen to the games live for the first time. 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 6:30.10 5 Hungary 6:30.30 6 Switzerland 6:35.80 Olympic Games View All Athens 1896 Paris 1900 St. Louis 1904 London 1908 Stockholm 1912 Antwerp 1920 The men's eight competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place at Grnau Regatta Course in Berlin, Germany.The event was held from 12 to 14 August, and was won by a United States crew from the University of Washington.This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown. Peter Mallory, Rowing Historian: Nobody challenged Ulbrickson. Yet their legacy lives on in those still rowing on Seattles Montlake Cut. googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; 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. All rights reserved. Daniel James Brown, Author, The Boys in the Boat: A day came when Joe came home from school and he found the family car with the whole family in it and all kinds of luggage in it. The victory was the fifth consecutive gold medal in the event for the United States and seventh overall; the Americans had won every time they competed (missing 1908 and 1912). Every in-boat, water-level shot in the clip below was filmed before the final race, with fanciful audio mixed in. That was a bunch of guys that Joe could trust. Building into the Olympic year, Ulbrickson now had ten Eric Cohen, Rowing Historian: Al Ulbrickson would have preferred to have a two-hundred-pound guy in there who could pull twice as hard as Don Hume. and had a wonderful personality" says Moch. Stan In March 1936, Ulbrickson records the line-up he believes will be the winning combination for the 1936 Olympics. Hed grown up in England building boats with his father at Eton, the prestigious secondary school on the Thames river, the birthplace of the sport of competitive rowing. The 1936 U.S. Olympic rowing team from the University of Washington. The morning of the big race Ulbrickson declared Hume too sick to row. The 1936 Olympic Games represented one of the first moments in history where sports became fused with politics. [4]. The Boys in the Boat: Then and Now. He did the only thing he could, which was start whackin on the side of the shell. As the teams coach, hed watched rival California win gold medals at the 1928 and 32 Games. Kyla Ryan anyway!". Hurston, quien tambin se haba formado como antroploga, recopil el folclore del Sur de Estados Unidos y del Caribe, recuperando, honrando y celebrando la vida de la poblacin negra en sus propios trminos. The Nazi Party had risen to power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games, and its racist policies led to international debate about a boycott . Michael Moch, Son of Bobby Moch: He wasnt liked to start with at all. Simply referred to as the "Rowdown", it is the story of Jim Mueller, his coaching career. Nord was the crews were together, we started out, just going 26, 27 - just going home - we Recorded with Eric Cohen, They had been second in 20. Monica Cole George Pocock learned the art of building from his father, who handcrafted the shells for elite Eton rowers in England. and the Influence of Husky Crew on His Life. Daniel James Brown, Author: Gordy Adam worked on a salmon boat to make money for college. Judy Willman, Daughter of Joe Rantz: But there was where he really had to make the decision of, Am I a victim or am I a survivor? Because he had to pick up his life from there -- had to -- somehow. John D. Bolcer By 1948 the shell became the first "sectional" - cut The Outpost, Archival Materials Courtesy of The narrative rises inexorably, with the final 50 pages blurring by with white-knuckled suspense as these all-American underdogs pull off the unimaginable." . Archive Film/Getty Images Now he's preparing the U.S. Men's Four for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Husky Crew var googletag = googletag || {}; Timothy Egan, Author, The Worst Hard Time: These kids were very representative of the Pacific Northwest, which was raw, newly shaped. later when this wouldn't - it certainly catches the electricity of the moment so many years ago. Three Washington Rowing: The 1936 was then transferred to a shop to be reconditioned and rehabilitated by Karl They were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.. Washington Rowing History: The 1930's. Despite earlier competition back in Washington, friendship and trust was necessary to make the boat the best as it could be. context with the entire decade of the 30's, visit here: 1930 - 1939. The win completed the first ever sweep of the Poughkeepsie by a west coast crew - and was the first ever varsity win for Coach Ulbrickson.From Poughkeepsie the men traveled to Princeton New Jersey for the Olympic trials. Narrator: One member of the Washington crew, well acquainted with that hardship, was a 19-year-old named Joe Rantz. and - World and Olympic champions. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called it the "high spot" of the 1936 Olympics. Radio Announcer (Archival): California leads Washington by a length, approaching the river bridge at the three-mile mark. waterit'd be a 'zep' and that's all you could hear - the oarlock of 1935, the following description on the back: "Washington's Crew Shell Hume's teammates, however, told the coach they couldn't do it without him, so Ulbrickson relented and Hume was back in. The crew had to take the long route to the final after finishing second in their heat. Reaching in, finding something. Narrator: In June, the national championship in Poughkeepsie loomed. Someone once said of it, 'its surely one of the UW to be displayed in the Husky Den as a tribute to the 1936 Olympic team. Spencer Schulz winning the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship. The biggest race of the 34 Poughkeepsie championship was the varsity competition -- won by the University of California -- the longtime west coast powerhouse. Luke Khoury And Ulbrickson knew at that point he had the boat that he wanted to try to take to Berlin. They had clubs all over the country that were well coached, well funded. Timothy Egan, Author: When they get on a boat to cross the Atlantic, theyre all pinchin themselves. The crowd, which included Hitler, Hermann Gring, and other Nazi officials, awaited another German victory. with Eric Cohen, November 2002, mp3 format, 1:29. Our as UW frosh and lightweight coach at the end of the 30's. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum In the final 400 meters, the Huskies walked through the 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. Theyd won in 08, 12. The 1936 varsity, left to right: Don Hume, Joe This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown. What it really meant was Lets go to Berlin.. Click on the player below to listen to Henrys call: The resolve built from countless hours of practice kicked in. Day, Adam, White, McMillin, Hunt, Rantz, Hume, Moch. Ira Spiegel This collision produced devastating consequences. Yet something was very wrong. There were 33 competitors from 33 nations. Narrator: Hitler expected the German teams would dominate the Games. "[but] please accept my personnel expression of sincere Now England! close to even - that is how fast this crew moved when the stroke rate went up. along the now Burke-Gilman trail: The Nazis had searched the country for the best oarsmen and gave them uninterrupted training time for over a year before the 1936 games. A photo caption originally misidentified one of the rowers in a photo of the U.S. Olympic team in Indian headdresses. Just before the national championship, Ulbrickson reversed himself. Greenlake Junior Crew in Seattle was one of the first The audacity is breath-taking!' Olympian Bryan Volpenhein won gold in the Men's Eight in 2004. In a separate ceremony in Berlin's Olympic stadium, Roger Morris, Charles Day, Gordon Adam, John White, James McMillin, George Hunt, Joe Rantz, Don Hume, and Robert Moch received their gold medals. The noise swelled, and the rowers sensed the finish line closing in. "We took offwe just flew by them" says Bob Moch, almost as They also participated in the Opening Ceremonies, marching I thought, God, we've come all this way from Seattle, and to end up our season like this it can't happen. once-in-a-lifetime event. Big Jim McMillin, sitting in the five-seat, later remembered his thoughts at the starting line. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms. Mason Pollock Its a perfect connection. Susana Fernandes, Director Of Audience Development By Michael J. 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