THE SPORT OF ROWING “I’ve never seen Ten Eyck’s writings, but my coach, my mentor, Jim Manning, assured me that they are somewhere. “He was a professional sculling teacher, unsurpassed.”4943 Indeed, Ned Ten Eyck coached scullers and sweep rowers at Duluth Rowing Club as well as coaching collegiate crews at Wisconsin, Rutgers and Syracuse, but I, too, have been unable to locate any writings of his. However, it is clear from multiple sources that he rowed and taught Classical Technique learned from his father and from his namesake Ned Hanlan.4944 What Manning taught Rosenberg was that Ned Ten Eyck “emphasized the application of strength at the most critical point in the rowing cycle.”4945 Manning interpreted “strength’ to mean leg drive, and so Manning embraced the Philadelphia dipsy-doodle, which he passed on to Allen Rosenberg. European Influence However, Jim Manning and the other contemporaneous Boathouse Row coaches would not be the only influence on the new young Vesper coxswain. You may recall that Allen had been the first American to appreciate the challenge to American supremacy in world rowing represented by Karl Adam.4946 It was Rosenberg, a mere Vesper coxswain at the time, who had reported back to American coaches what he had observed at the 1958 European Championships. It was there that Allen was exposed to all that was happening in rowing overseas. 4943 Rosenberg, personal conversation, 2004 4944 See Chapter 41. 4945 Ferris, P. 94 4946 See Chapter 97. Vesper Boat Club Vesper Coach Jim Manning with coxswain Allen Rosenberg In his own words, it made a “deep impression on me.”4947 He had also already begun a careful personal study of sports literature. Rosenberg: “In 1956, I coached a coxed-pair out of Vesper using interval training. However, we did not fare well in the severe winds at the trials in Syracuse, and at any rate we were behind the field of Far Western teams whose style was more suited to the water. “In 1960, I first subscribed to the Australian Track and Field Journal and their articles from all over the world on technique and training.”4948 Young Jack Kelly Allen Rosenberg’s path to immortality as coach of the 1964 Olympic Champion Eight was improbable and circuitous. When he graduated from law school in 1960, Allen actually left both the sport and Philadelphia to pursue his new career. Meanwhile, John B. Kelly, Jr. was running Vesper as his father had run the Penn A.C. and Vesper during the previous 4947 Rosenberg, op. cit. 4948 Rosenberg, personal correspondence, 2007 1380
