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Dick, Gray, Eton, Freddy, Steve and two Elliotts: Or Never Judge an Oarsman
“Poems of Thomas Gray”, Dick Burnell’s ‘leaving book’ from Eton. 12 January 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Last week, HTBS published two articles about Oxford Blue, Olympic champion, rowing journalist and...
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Oxonian Rhapsody: Magnifico-o-o-o-o
Looking like the famous opening shot of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” video, “Track”, the crew that won the intra-OUBC Trial Race at Ely on 19 December, are perhaps wondering ‘Is this the real life? / Is...
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Bill Windham, RIP: A Great Oarsman
Bill Windham in the 5 seat of Cambridge winning crew in the 1947 Boat Race. 14 January 2021 By Robert Treharne Jones The death of Bill Windham, at the age of 94, has deprived the rowing world of one of...
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Kathleen Heddle – Three-Time Olympic Champion Dies
Kathleen Heddle 1965 – 2021. Photos: Kevin Light, Canadian Olympic Committee 15 January 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Rowing Canada Aviron released a statement on 13 January that Olympic rower Kathleen...
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Of Arms and the Man
Photo: USRowing 17 January 2021 By Philip Kuepper From a distance the rowers’ arms flashed like blades in the sunlight, blades, engaged, blades blinding, consumed by motion. They, and the water, a...
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St George Ashe, Part I: A Dragon Slayer?
St George Ogilvie Ashe (1871 – 1922) pictured c.1904. 18 January 2021 By Tim Koch Tim Koch wonders if there is a reason that history has forgotten St George Ashe. Initially, it seems strange that St...
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St George Ashe, Part II: Saint George or Don Quixote?
By c.1902, St George Ash (sic) was well-known enough to merit the honour of having a cigarette card display his image. The vest and cap are not Thames RC. They look like Leander, but surely not even...
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Triumph and Disaster
20 January 2021 By Tim Koch In a semi-final of the 2018 Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup, Henley’s Junior Women’s Quads event, Headington School and Marlow raced each other. Pictured here after the...
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There’ll Always be a Henley
HTBS writer William O’Chee is longing for Henley. Here he is at the regatta in 2019. Photo: Tim Koch. 21 January 2021 On 17 January, the Australians received the news that they were unlikely to be...
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Bernie – The HTBS Meme
Meme by Ingrid Buckhorn 21 January 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn While most of the guests at Biden/Harris Inauguration on Wednesday were dressed in dark and not so warm coats in the freezing Washington,...
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Chris Cramer: Newsman and Oarsman
Christopher Ranville Cramer died of cancer on 16 January at the age of 73. 22 January 2021 By Tim Koch Tim Koch remembers a fellow member of Auriol Kensington Rowing Club. For a man who was always very...
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What Escapes
24 January 2021 By Philip Kuepper By then, the sky and the sea were the same shades of blue-green, an aqua not possible for one to attain, like rowers and water, inseparable, yet never one....
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Paul Kölliker: The Two-Metre Swiss Scribe
Paul Kölliker on the Rotsee in 1958. Picture: KEYSTONE/PHOTOPRESS-ARCHIV/St via @swissrowing. 25 January 2021 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd remembers Swiss rower Paul Kölliker, whom Chris worked with in the...
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Jurgen Grobler on 50 Years in the Coaching Launch
A screenshot from Martin Cross’ recent online interview with Jurgen Grobler. It was billed as a chance to ‘hear one of the world’s greatest coaches share his insights into what makes athletes win’. 26...
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Another Ground-Breaking Step by British Rowing
Photo: British Rowing 27 January 2021 By Valery Kleshnev Dr. Valery Kleshnev, who is a graduate sport scientist, silver Olympic medallist and established the research and development and consulting...
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Colin Porter: A Rebel with a Cause
A ‘tough’ Colin Porter, one of Oxford’s coaches for the 1958 Boat Race – a race the Dark Blues lost. 28 January 2021 By Chris Dodd A bit late, news reaches HTBS that British oarsman and coach Colin...
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The Rowing App is Here!
29 January 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Rowing? Yes, there’s an app for that… Wyatt Harrell On Wednesday, The Rowing App was officially released. It is developed by Wyatt Harrell, who is a former U.S....
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Dartmouth College Reinstates Men’s Lightweight Rowing
Dartmouth College will reinstate men’s lightweight rowing and four other sports that were cut last summer. Photo: dartmouthsports.com 30 January 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Men’s lightweight rowing is...
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Cloud Play
31 January 2021 Philip Kuepper The sky hung, a dropcloth, of washed blue silk, to a stage positively minus of props, so that when two clouds appeared, shaped like boats with oars, the cloud oars so...
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Simon Crosse: London RC’s Architect Dies
Simon Crosse was at ‘2’ in the 1958 Barn Cottage Boat Club crew that won the coxed fours at the Empire Games and coxless fours in the Stewards’ at Henley. Mike Beresford was at bow, John Vigurs at ‘3’,...
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