THE SPORT OF ROWING heard him say to George and Stan, ‘No Gold Medal in that boat,’ before he drove away. “Our stroke that year was John Sayre, who had been Ulbrickson’s stroke in 1958 when Washington upset the Soviets in Moscow, and he [so valued the approval of] his college coach that the first thing John did when we won in Rome was to make a long- distance call to Ulbrickson to say, ‘Yes, there is a Gold Medal in that boat!’ Stan Withdraws a Bit Stan Pocock: “I had spent far too much time away from the shop over the previous three years. I had to pay more attention to business. Besides, I wanted to spend more time with my family. Though still the coach on paper, I took small part in the training and preparation for regattas, devoting neither the time nor the energy of previous years.”3591 Nash: “Going into ‘64, Stan did less coaching than perhaps we wanted him to. He had some obligations, so yeah, I did some coaching, but always consulting with him on everything. He was still the boss. “Stan taught me to row and to race. He taught men to be men. You never took an easy stroke for Stan Pocock. “You never wanted to let him down. That’s something that’s gone away a little these days, and maybe we need more of it. “Basically, I just did at Lake Washington what Stan had already taught me, and I sort of ended up running most of the workouts, but never without feeling that he was still the coach. I never tried to take over and be the only coach. It just sort of ended up that way. “Anyway, I was a bit too loud and opinionated to coach teammates from within the boat. It wears thin. 3591 S. Pocock, pp. 192-4 “The idea of skimping on a workout because the official coach wasn’t there never entered our heads. At LWRC, if Stan held a meeting and said something, we just assumed it came from the mountain, and we did it. “I remember that he told us one time that our weight-trainer, Harry Swetnam, had said to him that we were up there lifting, but we really weren’t doing enough. “Holy cow! We didn’t just do a few more reps. We doubled them. We stayed in that Lakeside gym from 5:30 in the morning until 9:00. We could hardly walk, and then we went down for a normal row. “You count on the military people in Lake Washington Rowing Club, and now you know why we did what we were told! “I tell you the truth. I was blessed to row with a bunch of masochists. I think we all liked it. Every weight session was a contest!”3592 LWRC Technique Under Ted Nash . After his coxless-four had won the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, Ted Nash’s crew branched off a bit from the 2nd Generation Conibear technique taught them by Stan Pocock. Nash: “The technique that seemed to have the best of everything for us wasn’t the [University of] Washington Style. We were only four hundred meters away from the Conibear Shellhouse, but there’s no question that we were different. Stan had smoothed us out and harmonized our motions.3593 In 1964, as they made their way to the starting line in Tokyo, Ted was coaching and steering the boat from the stroke seat, and you could pick him out from halfway down the course. He was wearing his 3592 Nash, personal conversation, 2004 3593 Nash, op. cit. 986
