Gordon Newell Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing 9780295997971

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Автор: Gordon Newell
Название: Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing
ISBN: 9780295997971
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

ISBN-10: 0295997974
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 188
Вес: 0.75 кг.
Дата издания: 11.09.2015
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 68 b&w illus.
Размер: 279 x 216 x 13
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Поставляется из: Англии
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In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the “crude western boats” and their crews. But for the next forty years, the University of Washington dominated rowing around the world.

The secret of the Huskies’ success was George Pocock, a soft-spoken English immigrant raised on the banks of the Thames. Pocock combined perfectionism with innovation to make the lightest, best-balanced, fastest shells the world had ever seen. After studying the magnificent canoes built by Northwest Indians, he broke with tradition and began to make shells of native cedar.

Pocock, who had been a champion sculler in his youth, never credited his boats for the accomplishments of a crew. He wanted every rower to share his vision of discipline and teamwork. As rowers from the University of Washington went on to become coaches at major universities across the country, Pocock’s philosophy—and his shells—became nationally famous in the world of crew.

Drawing on documents provided by Pocock’s family, photographs from the University of Washington Crew Archives, and interviews with rowers who revered the man, Newell evokes the times as well as the life of this unique figure in American sport.

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Foreword by Dick Erickson
Preface

1. Apprentice Watermen on the Thames
2. Making Do on the Pacific Northwest Frontier
3. Building Shells in the Tokyo Tea Room
4. Building Airplanes at the Red Barn
5. “Clumsily Built Weste

Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing, Gordon Newell