John White (rower)

John "Johnny" Galbraith White (born May 16, 1916 in Seattle , Washington , † March 16, 1997 in Bellevue , Washington ) was an American rower .

John White, along with Gordon Adam and Donald Hume, was on the eighth of the Washington Huskies , the University of Washington's sports team that won the Freshmen Championship at the 1935 Intercollegiate Rowing Association national eight championships. In 1936 and 1937 Adam belonged to the victorious eighth of the first team, in 1938 he finished third in his final year. In 1936 the eighth of the huskies qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Berlin . The eighth with Herbert Morris , Charles Day , Gordon Adam, John White, Jim McMillin , George Hunt , Joseph Rantz , Donald Hume and helmsman Robert Moch won in Berlin ahead of the Italians and the Germans, with all three boats crossing the finish line within a second rowed.

White's father, who had rowed himself in his youth, ran a company that exported scrap steel to Asia. The business collapsed with the stock market crash in 1929. For his part, John White graduated as a metallurgy engineer. He later worked at Bethlehem Steel , where he was promoted to sales director.

literature

James Daniel Brown : The Miracle of Berlin: How nine rowers brought the Nazis to their knees . Translation by Wolfram Ströle. Munich: Riemann, 2015 ISBN 978-3-641-09330-3

Web links

Johnny White in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
The Husky crew in the 1930s (English)

Footnotes

↑ Daniel James Brown: The miracle of Berlin. Riemann Verlag Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-570-50184-9 p. 258ff

personal data
SURNAME	White, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	White, John Galbraith (full name); White, Johnny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rower
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seattle , Washington
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 1997
Place of death	Bellevue , Washington

[1] Daniel James Brown: The miracle of Berlin. Riemann Verlag Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-570-50184-9 p. 258ff