THE SPORT OF ROWING Ulbrickson and Tom Bolles at the University of Washington. It remained concurrent Schubschlag but added the ferryman’s finish. In the 3rd Generation Era of Conibear coaches, some carried on the concurrent or hybrid-concurrent approach. These included Tom Bolles at Harvard, Rusty Callow at Navy, Joe Burk at Penn and Jim Rathschmidt at Yale, but Stork Sanford at Cornell evolved into the Overlapping- Sequential Schubschlag, still concurrent in effort, but totally sequential in motion. There were the occasional instances of Segmented-Effort Kernschlag technique, such as the 1957 Yale crew, which had evolved just far enough past its 1956 Olympic Champion predecessor to experience a two-part pullthrough. For the last hundred years, all of the 20th Century techniques have been grouped together and referred to as the Conibear Stroke. This is another example of how, throughout history, coaches, rowers and historians have failed to appreciate the subtle but essential distinctions between concurrent and sequential rowing and between a smooth, organic pullthrough, whether Schubschlag or Kernschlag, and segmented-effort Kernschlag pullthroughs. Syracuse’s Bill Sanford (no relation to Stork) often pondered his own Conibear heritage.2759 Syracuse had first found success under Jim and Ned Ten Eyck, non- Washingtonians, but between the Ten Eyck and Bill Sanford eras was Loren Schoel, and he was a Washington grad coached by Al Ulbrickson who had first coached at Cornell under Stork Sanford. Bill Sanford: “During that time, coaches were looking at one another and mimicking each other’s techniques. 2759 Sanford, personal correspondence, 2004 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Loren Schoel Everybody was looking for that little bit extra. “Each coach would have his own little adaptations, and after a while you could tell them apart, but looking back on it, it’s remarkable how similar everybody was. “Loren Schoel, my predecessor at Syracuse, had his 1959 Pan Am Champion crew exaggerate the layback and then really shoot the hands out, but he might have gone a bit too far in that direction. “The version of the Conibear Stroke he taught me was characterized by a relatively slow, controlled front end of the stroke with the legs and back coordinated and building to a strong finish. The hands came away fast at the release, followed by a slow slide.”2760 (In describing a “slow, controlled front end,” Bill Sanford was describing the Schubschlag technique he was taught from 2760 Ibid. 760
