Karl Vernon
Karl Vernon (nickname The Bean ; born June 19, 1880 in Neuenahr , † July 11, 1973 in Worthing ) was a British rower and rowing coach.
Life
Vernon, who was born in the German Empire, became a member of the influential Thames Rowing Club in London- Putney around 1904 . From 1906 he regularly took part in the Henley Royal Regatta , often rowing with Julius Beresford . With this Vernon formed a new foursome together with Bruce Logan and Charlie Rought in the autumn of 1907 , who won the Stewarts' Challenge Cup in Henley in 1909 and 1911 . At the Olympic rowing regatta in Stockholm in 1912, due to a curvy rowing course, only a four-man competition was offered, which was not particularly popular in England. The quartet therefore competed with helmsman Geoffrey Carr in a 20-year-old boat and won the silver medal behind a German selection from the Ludwigshafen rowing club with a gap of around two boat lengths.
After his active career as an athlete, Vernon became an influential rowing coach with the Thames Rowing Club and various university rowing clubs. He also took on voluntary positions in his home club. In 1954 he melted down all the trophies and medals he had won and made a trophy in the form of a statue of the rower Jack Beresford , the son of his former rowing partner Julius Beresford. The challenge cup is awarded annually as the Vernon Trophy at the Head of the River Race of the fastest club team that trains on the tidal part of the Thames in London (" Tideway ").
Vernon worked as an architect, temporarily for the London County Council . He led a vegetarian lifestyle and was nicknamed The Bean for it . In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps , for which he was awarded the Military Medal (MM).
Web links
- Karl Vernon at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Karl Vernon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Bill Miller: Henley Royal Regatta: Results of Final Races - 1839-1939. (No longer available online.) In: http://www.rowinghistory.net . Archived from the original on March 9, 2012 ; accessed on August 31, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1912 Thames RC's Olympic Silver. In: heartheboatsing.com. “Hear The Boat Sing”, August 16, 2012, accessed August 31, 2016 .
- ^ A b c Geoffrey Page: The History of University College London Boat Club. (No longer available online.) In: www.ucl.ac.uk. University College London Boat Club, archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 31, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Enter HoRR. In: www.horr.co.uk. Head of the River Race , accessed August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Jim Green: Tributes paid to Military Medal war hero from Flint. (No longer available online.) In: www.countytimes.co.uk. County Times, July 30, 2012, archived from the original September 2, 2016 ; accessed on August 31, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vernon, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The Bean (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rower and rowing coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuenahr , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1973 |
| Place of death | Worthing , UK |