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Vesper Legends
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William Nelson sent us this information to help us ensure the completeness
and accuracy of Vesper history.
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John DuGene and William Nelson rowed for Vesper on the 1978 Men's Lightweight team that went to Copenhagen for the FISA Lightweight Championships. They were the Team Alternates/"Spare Pair" for the 4- which also came from Vesper (Gribbin, Bater, Bohlin, Lewis). 6 of the 9 team members that year came from Vesper. The 1x was Bill Beldon and the 2x was Stan Depman and Fred Duling. They were not from Vesper. The coach that year, John Bannon, also was from Vesper.
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More Vesper Legends
• Paul Costello, winner of the double sculls in 1920-1924 and 1928 and numerous national and Canadian championships. (Also rowed for Penn AC)
• Joe Toland, Vince Deeney and cox, Joe MacIntyre, represented US in the coxed pair in the 1948 Olympic games. Toland later coached at St. Josephs and both won many championships. Toland rowed behind Knecht in the Pan American Gold 8 in Mexico City.
• Bill Knecht won many championships as a sculler and sweep including Tokyo 8 (in No.7). Sculled in Rome with Jack Kelly Jr. in the double and many other noteworthy achievements.
• Jim Manning -- coach in 1953-1961. Coached the Navy plebes at the academy. They later won 52 consecutive races including the 52 Olympic Gold. Coached Kelly in the single from 1952 on. Took the Brown and Nichols schoolboy 8 to Henley to win the ladies plate as the first American school boy crew to do that.
• Vesper 8 (1958) won Canadian Henley in record time and placed 2nd in European championships in Poland: Kelly, Knecht, Hermann, Coleman, Ignas, Heffernan Halloran, Wilmerding, cox Rosenberg.
• Frank Muller-- coach of the 1900 Paris 8 and later at Yale. Coached from a single riding off the bow.
• Harry Parker-Pan American and Olympic sculler (bronze 1960) -- later coach at Harvard.
• Bob Zimonyi, cox of the Tokyo 8 and winner of bronze in coxed pair in London Olympics 1948.
• Dickie Mahan, lightweight sculler from East Falls and one of the best in the US for many years. Rowed quadruples and doubles winning many races.
• The 1900 Paris eight. These were the best scullers in Philadelphia including Harry De Baecke, Jim Juvenal, Lockwood and others.
(Source: Allen Rosenberg)
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