NavyLites History

In the spring of 1954, LT Buck Herzog '46, who was an assistant to Navy Heavyweight Head Coach, Rusty Callow, got an okay from Rusty to enter a lightweight boat in the EARC. The boat didn't have long to practice. There were no 2V or Plebe crews. The 1V rowed one race. There was no Captain, but Jack McNish was the most experienced and the leader of the crew.
-- Jack McNish '55 and J. Darrow Kirkpatrick '57

Navy Lightweight Crew Items of Interest

Navy Lightweight Crew Timeline
Special thanks to Dale P. Hurly, Jr. '89 and Christopher L. (Kit) Vallhonrat '93 for researching this timeline through 2001 and to the Navy Lightweight Crew staff for continuing to maintain.

Navy Varsity Lightweight Crew Head Coaches
Navy Varsity Lightweight Crew Captains
Navy Varsity Lightweight Crew Spirit of the Lightweights
Navy Lightweight Crew U.S. Team Rowers
Quotes on Rowing

Navy Lightweight Crew History By Year

Navy Lightweight Crew Annual Cup and Trophy Races

Russell S. Callow Cup [MVL8 winner Navy - Penn]

Eads Johnson, Jr. Cup [MVL8 winner Navy - Yale]

Henry Herbert “Bert” Haines Trophy [MVL8 winner Navy - Harvard]

Joseph Murtaugh Cup [MVL8 winner Navy - Princeton]

Smith Trophy [This is currently being researched; 70's era alumni recall the Smith Trophy as a combined heavyweight and lightweight point trophy between Navy and Princeton.]

The 1922 Trophy [MVL8 winner -- Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA)]

Ralph T. Jope Cup [Team winner -- Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC - Eastern Sprints)]

Joseph Wright Trophy [MVL8 winner -- Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC - Eastern Sprints)]

The Cornell Trophy [M2VL8 winner -- Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC - Eastern Sprints)]

Gary W. Kilpatrick Cup [MFL8 winner -- Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC - Eastern Sprints)]