THE SPORT OF ROWING British Pathé Newsreel, 971-18, Henley Regatta Finals 1938 Kent Varsity, before Ratzeburg Thames Challenge Cup Winners Coach: Tote Walker Coxswain E.W. Thomas, Stroke H.M. Drinker 180lb. 82kg, 7 C.R. Brothwell 179lb. 81kg, 6 J. Simmons 190lb. 86kg, 5 P.H. Conze 180lb. 82kg, 4 P.D. Wilson 182lb. 83kg, 3 E.G. Miller 167lb. 76kg, 2 J.F. Requardt 166lb. 75kg, Bow J.H. Hooper 168lb. 76kg 0°, +30° to -30°, 0-9, 0-9, 0-10 Classical Technique Schubschlag Conibear fast-slow recovery, Jesus Bell-Note entry. Pullthrough followed Fairbairn model: strong concurrency to a ferryman’s finish. which won the very first Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta in 1895.4545 Through most of the 20th Century, Kent had a reputation for crew and for a semi- monastic “self help” lifestyle where many of the school’s menial chores were performed by the students themselves. Life Magazine, 1937: “From a rowing point of view, even the most swank and expensive of U.S. preparatory schools must yield to Connecticut’s Kent, where expense 4545 The New Yorker, July 1, 1933, p. 10 is conditioned to the pupil’s parents’ purse, and swank is subordinated to the simple life. “Kent lets its boys pay a tuition fee ranging from nothing to $1,500, depending on their families’ circumstances. And no matter what their circumstances, all boys share in the school work of making beds, waiting on tables, washing windows, tending furnaces.”4546 With Sill as coach, in 1927, only three years after it first hit the water, Kent became 4546 Kent Crew Tunes Up For England, Life Magazine, May 31, 1937 1256
