THE SPORT OF ROWING current system: “I am in favor of keeping some continuity with one coach for a period of time so as to avoid multiple changes from year to year. I believe the coaching staff should be fairly compensated. Finally, I expect to see a National Training Center where coaches, crews and trainers can be in residence for education, competition and training.”4929 Allen took full advantage of his opportunity in 1974. His crew that year was magnificent, and through his example and his writings, starting in that year Allen Rosenberg became 20th Century’s single most influential person in the entire world rowing community since Steve Fairbairn, easily beating out Hiram Conibear and Karl Adam. Fairbairn’s influence had been felt worldwide from early in the century, and Conibear and his followers had most of America identifying with his stroke by 1937 when Tom Bolles moved to Harvard. Adam had dominated international rowing in the ‘60s. By 1975, however, they were all nearly forgotten. Most of the America and much of the World were beginning to row the Rosenberg Style. And many have kept at it through 2000 and beyond. Rosenberg’s approach formed the basis for today’s Modern Orthodox Technique! Rosenberg’s Roots When Jack Kelly, Sr. left Vesper in the 1920s, the boathouse was virtually abandoned for nearly twenty years. The Penn A.C. became the premier club on the Schuylkill River. Local rowing philosophy was dominated by Frank Muller,4930 coach 4929 The Oarsman, op. cit., p. 7 4930 See Chapter 56. The Philadelphia Dipsy-Doodle Throughout his career, Frank Muller had taught a pullthrough that began strongly, with power maintained all the way to a strong finish. In other words, Schubschlag. But when Big Eight rowers became coaches themselves, the technique they taught the next generation of Philadelphians was a mutant segmented-effort Kernschlag descendant of the Muller Style characterized by sequential use of the major muscle groups. This was the latest example in this book of Rowing History’s Greatest Lesson.4932 Over time, a technique becomes rigid and inflexible, and force application tends to 4931 See Chapter 64. 4932 See Chapter 18. Vesper Boat Club was rescued from oblivion when Kelly, Sr. returned from the Penn A.C. in 1942 and rehabilitated the boathouse so that Kelly, Jr. would have a place to row. During the following ten years, Vesper became more and more active, providing a home for the St. Joseph’s Preparatory School team. In late 1952, Kelly hired Jim Manning as Vesper’s head coach. Manning had been Freshman Coach at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis under Buck Walsh, a follower of Richard Glendon, and Manning remained in Annapolis as boatman early in the era of Rusty Callow’s Great Eight.4931 of the 1929-32 Big Eight, who continued to coach there through the 1930s. Afterward, the members of his Big Eight crew took over up and down Boathouse Row. At the Penn A.C., Joe Dougherty was head coach from 1943 to 1950. Then it was Tom “Bear” Curran to 1954 and Jack Bratten to 1959. These coaches formed the brain trust of the Schuylkill Navy during the 1950s. 1376