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The highly talented coach of the University of California at Berkeley rowing team, Ky Ebright is Al Ulbrickson’s rival throughout the book. Having coached Olympic gold medalists in the past, Ebright is eager to repeat his feat in the 1936 games, but in the end, he recognizes that Ulbrickson has the finer team.
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Chapter 7
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The next year, 1924, Washington returned, with a young Al Ulbrickson rowing at stroke, and won the varsity race again, decisively this time. In 1926 they did it yet again, this time with Ulbrickson rowing the final quarter of a mile with a torn muscle in one arm. In 1928, Ky Ebright's California Bears won their first Poughkeepsie title en route to winning the Olympics that year and again in 1932. By 1934 the western schools were finally beginning to be taken seriously.
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Ky Ebright Quotes in The Boys in the Boat
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Chapter 7
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The next year, 1924, Washington returned, with a young Al Ulbrickson rowing at stroke, and won the varsity race again, decisively this time. In 1926 they did it yet again, this time with Ulbrickson rowing the final quarter of a mile with a torn muscle in one arm. In 1928, Ky Ebright's California Bears won their first Poughkeepsie title en route to winning the Olympics that year and again in 1932. By 1934 the western schools were finally beginning to be taken seriously.
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