1936

Olympic Snelving Squad


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Gold Medallists, Berlin 1936

Back Row:
Matthew "Snuffy" Foster-Braithwaite (Position: Point Loper) Oxford University SC; Eldon "Muriel" Maskelyne (Reeve) Chelsea & Kensington SC;
Thomas "Fanny" Blaenkers-Cohen (East Lump) Goldsmiths College SC; George "T-Bone" Wilson (Gulch) Rugby SC;
Michael "The Professor" Turbine-Hamilton (Captain & Forward Punt) Dalry High School FPSC

Front Row:
William "Frenchie" Jackson (Totter) Harvard SC; Guido "Niffy" Drapatolli (Leap) Trincomalee Empire SC;
Leonard "Len" Salmon (Clype) Salop SC; Simon "Steamboats" Lawrence (Chintz) Cambridge University SC



1938

Great Britain Greek Snelving XIV



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Photo of the 1938 World Championship Winners taken before the Winners' Fancy Dress Ball at Yale (June, 1938)

Back Row: "Sister Veronica" (Jack P. O'Donoghue) Position: Attic Loper; Club: Skreedle Bay SC;
"Sister Concepta" (Nigel D. D. Thynne) Grand Pinch, Blackheath SC; "Sister Marijuana" (Rodney Stewart) Opsfark Gline, Glasgow Greek SC;
"Sister Theresa" (Fred Hoyle) Funklejube, Warwickshire County SC; "Sister Agatha" (Simon Penshawe-Dreedle),Pinch Gline, Leek Greek SC;

Middle Row: "Sister Lusitania" (A, K. Steptoe) Fly Man, Oxford UGSC; "Sister Voluptua" (Ralph Bodger-Steele) Sneake, Port Sunlight SC;
"Sister Chlamydia" (D.R.T. Plooke) Boiler, Latakia SC; "Sister Susie" (I.K.Fulton) Poop, Troon Wallies SC;
"Sister Fallopia" (J.K.Smith) Potrzebie, Lochgelly SC;

Front Row: "Sister Gloxinia" (F.W. MacGroarty) Nether Squart, Mombasa SC; "Sister Fatima" (L. P. Hartley) Flush, Kensington & Chelsea SC;
"Sister Listeria" (R.W. Rowland) Full Back, Penzance SC


Photo by "Mother Superior" (Max Turbine-Hamilton) Greek Swinger & Captain, Dalry HSSC