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Ramblings of a 93 year old TUFF logging camp liberal row boater

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,017 Founders Club
edited October 2020 in Yellow Snow's Record Shoppe
Those that have read The Boys In The Boat will appreciate this. Letter that Joe Rantz wrote to the 2007 National Championship crew about 2 months before passing away at 93.

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,573 Founders Club
    Good stuff. As a youth with no pro sports and the Huskies the only show in town, crew got a lot of free pub. Those trips to Henley were a big deal
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,573 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    Good stuff. As a youth with no pro sports and the Huskies the only show in town, crew got a lot of free pub. Those trips to Henley were a big deal

    We? also won with the QB (of the boat) having been near death- i.e., severe respiratory infection resulting in weight loss and high fever. Back then, the mighty men were willing to stare down death to beat Hitler.
    He had Covid?
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,017 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    Good stuff. As a youth with no pro sports and the Huskies the only show in town, crew got a lot of free pub. Those trips to Henley were a big deal

    We? also won with the QB (of the boat) having been near death- i.e., severe respiratory infection resulting in weight loss and high fever. Back then, the mighty men were willing to stare down death to beat Hitler.
    He had Covid?
    Don Hume, the stroke seat had some real bad crud. Like way worse than Covid for college athletes bad.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,573 Founders Club
    My dad's country club buddy
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,017 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    My dad's country club buddy

    Yep. He was born in Olympia. Hell of a nice guy. He came and watched us at Henley one year. Looked the part of a tuff logging camp country club guy.
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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,042 Standard Supporter
    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    My dad was at UW in 36. Huskies lost to Pitt in the Rose Bowl under Jim Phelan

    I went to school with a Hume kid

    6 degrees of separation

    Between Uncle Ky Ebright and going to school with Hume kids, Race could be the official historian of old timey Husky Crew.


    Shelby Foote....rrraaaawwwwwrrrrrr!
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,017 Founders Club
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    YellowSnow said:

    RaceBannon said:

    My dad was at UW in 36. Huskies lost to Pitt in the Rose Bowl under Jim Phelan

    I went to school with a Hume kid

    6 degrees of separation

    Between Uncle Ky Ebright and going to school with Hume kids, Race could be the official historian of old timey Husky Crew.


    Shelby Foote....rrraaaawwwwwrrrrrr!
    Thank god Shelby died before he could be canceled.
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