THE SPORT OF ROWING Author / Newell Boathouse, Harvard University 1974 Harvard Heavyweight Varsity Eight “Rude and Smooth” on the boathouse wall Bow Blair Brooks 6’5” 196cm 190lb. 86kg, 2 Oliver Scholle 6’4” 193cm 190lb. 86kg, 3 Ed Woodhouse 6’2” 188cm 185lb. 84kg, 4 Tiff Wood 6’1” 188cm 185lb. 84kg, 5 Dave Fellows 6’3” 191cm 190lb. 86kg, 6 Dick Cashin 6’4” 193cm 195lb. 88kg, 7 Steve Row 6’2” 188cm 196lb. 89kg, Stroke Al Shealy 6’3” 191cm 185lb. 84kg, Coxswain (not seen) Dave Weinberg IRA-winner Washington over four miles.”4807 The crew then flew across the Atlantic to compete in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. Stone: “We had won the right to row the 1972 U.S. Stämpfli, in which I remembered winning the Ladies Plate as part of the 1973 Harvard Jayvee, but in 1975 we found it unrowable. Maybe it had warped. Right before our race Harry moved us into Orange Coast College’s Karlisch, the finest boat I had rowed in up to that point.”4808 www.thecrimson.com: “Although Har- vard fell to the British National Team in the final, its semi-final win over the Union Boat Club provided victory in itself. “‘There was a little bit of history,’ ‘We were racing against Parker said. basically the makings of the U.S. National Crew. In 1974, they had been World Champions.4809 Two of the members of that 4807 Stone, op. cit. 4808 Stone, op. cit., 2007 4809 See Chapter 111. crew were in our crew, Shealy and Cashin, and when we decided to go to Henley in ‘75, [National Coach Allen Rosenberg] also decided to take the remainder of the National Team. “‘There was a natural rivalry there.’”4810 This was a major, major Harry Parker understatement! Any time that crews representing Parker and Rosenberg, the two great American coaches of the era, met, it was indeed a very big deal for both of them. Cashin: “When we raced Union at Henley in 1975, it was such a shock. Rosenberg was supposed to be racing two fours, but he saw a chance to spoil Harry’s and our Grand Challenge Cup run, and so he combined the fours to race us. “It was the entire 1974 World Champion National Eight without Mark Norelius, who was in the Air Force, and without Al Shealy and me. 4810 Qtd by Lee, op. cit. 1336
