The October 14, 1954 Targum reported President Eisenhower had declared Saturday “Olympic Day” and Rutgers responded to the fund raising effort for the 1956 Olympic team. The pair-orred shell used to win the 1952 Olympic gold medal in Helsinki would be displayed at the October 16 football game against William & Mary. Senior Chuck Logg, son of the Rutgers crew coach, was teamed up with freshman Tom Price who only began rowing in January of 1952. That summer, they shocked the crew world with their qualifying win at the U.S. Trials in men’s coxless pairs. They finished last in the first qualifying round at the Olympics but made it to the finals through the repêchages. On July 23, 1952 they faced the same three boats from Switzerland, Britain and Belgium that had beaten them earlier. After falling behind by one and a half boat lengths to Belgium, Logg and Price turned up the steam and won the Olympic gold medal in an 8:20.7 run at Helsinki, Finland in their aptly named shell, “Cinderella.” The gold was a first in the event for the United States courtesy of “The Cinderella Kids” from Rutgers.
1952 · Thomas Price, age 19, from Rutgers, began rowing in January, sat in a pair for the first time in May, and won gold in the U.S. Olympic coxless-pair in Helsinki in the summer of 1952.
1952 U.S. Gold Medal Pair - Chuck Logg & Tom Price
1952 · Thomas Price, age 19, from Rutgers, began rowing in January, sat in a pair for the first time in May, and won gold in the U.S. Olympic coxless-pair in Helsinki in the summer of 1952.
1952 U.S. Gold Medal Pair - Chuck Logg & Tom Price
