Cornell crew

[billhoward]

Running?  

SEATTLE – The teams are set for this year's running of the 27th annual Windermere Cup, the spring rowing event on the Montlake Cut that signifies Opening Day for boaters in Seattle, and the Cornell University rowing program has been chosen to participate ... http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2013/2/20/MROW_0220132515.aspx

http://www.cornellbigred.com/images/2013/2/20/rp_primary_Windermere-Cup.jpg

WWJD?

[George64]

Running?  

SEATTLE – The teams are set for this year's running of the 27th annual Windermere Cup, the spring rowing event on the Montlake Cut that signifies Opening Day for boaters in Seattle, and the Cornell University rowing program has been chosen to participate ... http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2013/2/20/MROW_0220132515.aspx

http://www.cornellbigred.com/images/2013/2/20/rp_primary_Windermere-Cup.jpg

WWJD?

Just finished reading The Boys in the Boat, the compelling story of the University of Washington rowers who raced and won in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.  It's an inspiring sports story and an engrossing history of a tumultuous era.

Cornell gets mentioned more than any other school except Washington's west coast rival, Cal Berkeley.  A few interesting notes.  Except for timeouts for WW I and II, the IRA Regatta was held annually on the Hudson near Poughkeepsie from 1895 through 1949.  Rowing was a really big deal and Cornell maintained a substantial boathouse there.  It was acquired by Marist College in 1977 and restored in 2004.  It's still called the Cornell Boathouse.  "Stork" Sanford, Cornell's longest tenured (1937-69) and winningest rowing coach, was a Washington oarsman.    Gil Dobie, Cornell's winningest football coach (82-36-7), coached earlier at Washington (1908-16) where he never lost (58-0-3).

[Jim Hyla]

Alex Karwoski '12 and Taylor Goetzinger '12 To Represent USA At World Rowing Championships

[David Harding]

I just stumbled upon this collection of reports in the Chicago Tribune of July 21, 1875, on Cornell's big crew victory.  I know that there was generally great interest in rowing at the time, but I didn't expect coverage of an eastern race to occupy more than half the front page of a Chicago newspaper.

[cu155]

The libraries at Cornell have some fantastic archives of media, race photos etc. that really should be further digitized.  For an away race at Dartmouth one year my mom asked for access and was able to copy a bunch of it for a slide show while hosting the team.  I'll have to ask if she still has any of it though that's 20+ years now.

[ugarte]

simply because this showed up on my timeline...