Robert Morrison (rower)

Robert Erskine Morrison (born March 26, 1902 in Richmond , London , † February 19, 1980 in Longstanton , Cambridgeshire ) was a British rower .

Robert Morrison had in Eton with Charles Eley , James MacNabb and Terence Sanders rowed together. The helmsmanless four stayed together when the four moved to Trinity College in Cambridge. The four rowers won three times the Henley Royal Regatta from 1922 to 1924 and remained undefeated in those three years. In total, Morrison won eight races at Henley by 1925. Morrison and Sanders also rowed in the Boat Race for Cambridge in 1923 , but were subject to the Oxford boat.

The four without a helmsman from Cambridge was one of the four boats that competed in this boat class at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, all four boats made it to the finals. The four Brits won by four seconds over the Canadians and the Swiss.

Morrison later worked as an engineer and lived in different parts of the country until he retired in Cambridgeshire.

Web links

Robert Morrison in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2016 ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 pp. 298-300

personal data
SURNAME	Morrison, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Morrison, Robert Erskine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British rower
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Richmond (London)
DATE OF DEATH	19th February 1980
Place of death	Longstanton , Cambridgeshire