THE SPORT OF ROWING until after the Tokyo Games. When his crews toured American colleges and the Schuylkill, I was in Indiana.4991 Dietrich Rose: “I would like to make a few comments about the way we made this crew to move fast. Harry Parker‟s comment reflecting a hybrid style between Ratzeburg and Allen‟s American is correct. Since I rowed in the same boat in Ratzeburg, I realized what changes had to be made in order to beat this crew. All that was needed was to change the speed of the slide and use a little bit more layback. And the speed of the start, 53 strokes per minute, and 42 in the following 25, was not a typical American fashion. “Sitting next to Allen for almost every workout, I was able to contribute my thoughts into his way to coach the crew. In all, the proof is in the pudding. We got Gold, and they the Silver.”4992 Budd and Clark Rosenberg: “Did you not know that Budd never rowed in Yale‟s Varsity, and Clark‟s crews never won a race? I hardly call that „sound rowing!‟”4993 Referring to Budd, Rosenberg has said, “He was very disruptive, but he was a dynamo.”4994 Disruptive? Boyce Budd had a nearly perfect parabolic Schubschlag force curve. In reality, these two men, Boyce Budd and Emory Clark with their coxswain John Quinn, were good enough to upset defending champion Findlay, Ferry and Mitchell in the 1964 National Championships, denying them the trip to the European Championships they had been 4991 Rosenberg, op. cit. 4992 Rose, personal correspondence, 2011 4993 Ibid. 4994 Rosenberg, qtd. by Xavier Macia, Enter the Hammer, Rowing News, September, 2004, p. 46 Author Boyce Budd Near perfect parabola counting on.4995 That fall, that losing Stanford Pair won an Olympic Gold Medal. Budd: “Actually I was in the Varsity boat my sophomore year and the Jayvee my junior and senior years. I graduated from Yale in 1961 and went to Cambridge where I made the Blue Boat in 1962. I then spent six months in the Marine Corps Reserves before I arrived at Vesper. “The best thing that ever happened to Emory and me was that I got stuck in the Jayvee and he was captain of one of Yale‟s worst crews. We were seething inside to prove ourselves when we got out of college! “I like to say that I learned all my rowing in the Marines, but the first time I ever rowed in a four, the first time I ever rowed in a pair, the first time I ever stroked a boat was at Cambridge. Only when you get into a small boat do you begin to find out how to really row.”4996 Nash: “Boyce Budd and Emory Clark were the nuts and bolts of that Vesper boat as far as I was concerned. They could have been an incredible pair-with if they had wanted because they had both rowed for 4995 See Chapter 82. 4996 Budd, op. cit., 2007 1388