THE SPORT OF ROWING and pulled the boats together. He switched me into the other boat. That move decisively made the old Jayvees the new Varsity, and it stayed that way. We came in third in the IRAs.”4031 Lou Lindsey Perry: “After the 1959 season, we assumed that Paul would be the coach when we got back from our summer cruise.”4032 Bos: “When we returned to the Academy in the fall of 1959 and found out, instead, that Lou Lindsey had been hired, we were literally stunned. “Everyone felt to be able to move my toes. I’d lie there in bed moving my toes. Feeling gradually came back to the point that I started walking with two canes, and I would make dates with the nurses, and we would go to the officers’ club and dance. “I eventually got forty more years out of my legs before that bullet finally caught up to me. I’m back in a wheelchair these days [2006].”4034 After the war, 1960 USOC Annual Lou Lindsey, 1960 and 2000 really bad for Paul, and while it wasn’t Lou’s fault, the guy was isolated.”4033 Lou Lindsey (1920-2008) is another one of those rare individuals in rowing history who has had an open mind. He had coxed for four years at Cal before graduating in 1942 and entering the U.S. Army. During World War II, he rose to the rank of captain. Lindsey: “After the war, I retired on disability. I had been shot on December 16, 1944, the day the Battle of the Bulge began. We were south of the Bulge on Patton’s southern point sticking into Germany and starting to go through the Siegfried Line. “The bullet went straight across me, hit two vertebrae and my pelvis. I was paralyzed for six months, and then I started 4031 Sweetser, personal correspondence, 2006 4032 Perry, op. cit. 4033 Bos, op. cit. Author Lou entered the Stanford Graduate School of Business and was quickly recruited to help coach the Stanford crew club. Lindsey: “I immediately went down to the Cal medical library and studied work physiology. The primary author in those days was Per-Olof Åstrand.4035 I also studied nutrition at that time and discovered that nutritionists did not believe that protein could be digested in time to be of any value on the day it was eaten, so that’s when I started the carbohydrate emphasis in the diet down at Stanford, long before I went to Navy.”4036 Lindsey coxed a boat that beat Cal over 1,000 meters on the morning of the 1946 Cal-Stanford football game, and he served as head coach for the 1947 season before withdrawing “due to illness as a result of his war injury.”4037 Lindsey returned as graduate manager during the 1949 season, and in 1950 he 4034 Lindsey, personal conversation, 2006 4035 of the Karolinske Institute in Stockholm, world-renowned Swedish author of the seminal Textbook of Work Physiology. 4036 Lindsey, op. cit. 4037 Dow, p. 14 1118
