THE SPORT OF ROWING good man to care for and repair his shells.”2361 Later in Philadelphia, Manning coached Allen Rosenberg,2362 who would later be the brain trust of the Vesper 1964 Olympic Champion Eight. The second historical figure was Harvard’s Tom Bolles,2363 Olympic Team Manager, and after Helsinki his technique seemed to evolve in the same direction that the Great Eight had taken. The third figure involved with the Great Eight was Bolles’ Washington teammate, Cornell coach Stork Sanford,2364 who assisted Rusty on the 1952 trip to Helsinki. In the years after 1952, Sanford’s crews were consistently among the very strongest America ever produced, winning four consecutive IRA titles beginning in 1955, taking over where the Great Eight left off. By 1955, Stork’s technique at Cornell had evolved toward leg drive even stronger than that of the 1952-54 Navy Crews, but this innovation had first begun to surface at Navy under Rusty Callow. Rusty the Man Murphy: “Very early in my career at Navy I met a girl, Mary Heering, the sister of another midshipman. We dated, and she told me of a conversation she had witnessed in 1950 when she was working as a secretary in the office of Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral Harry W. Hill, a real no-nonsense World War II veteran, former task force commander at Tarawa and Iwo Jima. “Just after Rusty had signed his contract to coach the crew, Hill said to him, ‘Callow, I’ll give you two years to produce a National Champion!’ 2361 Stevens, op. cit. 2362 See Chapter 107. 2363 See Chapter 63. 2364 See Chapter 70. Rusty Callow “This is the way I will always remember him. Besides my father, this man had the most to do with my development as a human being and how I think about things today. I loved him as close as family, and still do.” – Dick Murphy “Rusty’s immediate answer was, ‘Don’t threaten me, Admiral, or I’ll have you court- martialed.’ “That was Rusty from Day One. He always was a maverick to the Navy establishment.”2365 Colorful comments still ring in the ears of Lyman Perry, stroke of Rusty’s last crew at Navy:2366 “Let’s go, boys! The water is flat as a plate of [urine]!” “Smith, you couldn’t pull a sailor off your sister!”2367 2365 Murphy, op. cit. 2366 See Chapter 90. 2367 Perry, personal correspondence, 2005 Dick Murphy 656
