Herbert Morris

{{Short description|American rower (1915–2009)}}

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Herbert Roger Morris (July 16, 1915 – July 22, 2009) was an American rower who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite web| last = Lange | first = Greg | title = HistoryLink: Rowing crew of the University of Washington wins the Olympic Gold Medal on August 14, 1936 | url = http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=700 | date = 1999-01-15

| publisher = HistoryLink.org | access-date = 2009-07-25}}

Raised in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Morris had rowed on Puget Sound as a boy and took up sweep-oar rowing at the University of Washington. He rowed in UW senior varsity eights which won US national Intercollegiate Rowing Association titles in 1936 and 1937. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal rowing in the bow seat of the American boat in the men's eight competition.{{cite web| last = Lange | first = Greg | title = HistoryLink: Rowing crew of the University of Washington wins the Olympic Gold Medal on August 14, 1936 | url = http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=700 | date = 1999-01-15

| publisher = HistoryLink.org | access-date = 2009-07-25}}{{Cite news |last=Withers |first=Bud |title=Huskies' last surviving member of 1936 Olympic-gold crew team dies | newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=July 24, 2009 |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2009527676_crewobit24.html }}

Morris was a mechanical engineering graduate. In his professional career he worked on large scale dredging projects in the Seattle area.Brown, Daniel James (2013). The Boys In The Boat, Viking / Penguin Group, New York. {{ISBN|978-0-670-02581-7}}. He died on July 22, 2009, as the last remaining member of the crew.