Ky Ebright

Ebright was an only child,{{cite interview| url= https://archive.org/stream/crewcoachforucoly00ebririch/crewcoachforucoly00ebririch_djvu.txt | publisher= University of California Berkeley | via= Regional Oral History Office, University of California Bancroft Library | subject= Carroll "Ky" Ebright |title= Ky Ebright: Crew Coach for The University of California and The Olympics| location= Berkeley, California | year= 1968 |interviewer= Arthur M. Arlett }} born in Chicago, Illinois, to Frank Randall Ebright (1862–1959) and Charlotte M. Bassage Ebright (1866–1959). He attended Broadway High School in Seattle, Washington.

While attending college at the University of Washington, Ebright was a coxswain, lettering there in 1916 and 1917.

During World War I he was a flying instructor.

Ebright remained at the University of Washington after graduating and was an assistant coach there through the 1923 season. In the fall of 1923, he became the head coach for the rowing team at Berkeley.Lemmon, Jim. The Log of Rowing at the University of California, Berkeley. 1870–1987 Ebright took the job only after he was assured that his job at Washington would be waiting for him if things did not work well.

Ebright is the only man to have coached three Olympic gold medal-winning eight-oared boats. He coached the Cal men's crew from 1924 through 1959.{{cite web| url=http://www.natrowing.org/USNationalRowingHOF.pdf| publisher=National Rowing Foundation| title=U.S. National Rowing Hall of Fame| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623225627/http://www.natrowing.org/USNationalRowingHOF.pdf| archivedate=June 23, 2013| df=mdy-all}}

During his tenure, the Cal Bears men's varsity 8 (8+) won the following events:

Olympics

• 1928 Summer Olympics – Gold Medal
• 1932 Summer Olympics – Gold Medal
• 1948 Summer Olympics – Gold Medal

IRA Championships – National Title

• 1928
• 1932
• 1934
• 1935
• 1939
• 1949

In 1956, Ebright was inducted into the United States Rowing Hall of Fame. In addition, four of his varsity boats have been inducted:

• 1928 Univ. California Eight
• 1932 Univ. California Eight
• 1939 Univ. California Eight
• 1948 Univ. California Eight

According to friend and interviewer Arthur Arlett, Ebright was small of stature (befitting a coxswain) and was affectionately nicknamed "The Little Admiral". He married Kathryn Doty Gruber Ebright (1907–2001);{{cite web| url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24289410| title= Kathryn Doty Gruber Ebright | website= FindAGrave.com | accessdate= December 31, 2014| date=December 18, 2001| publisher= referencing Alameda Times-Star obituary}} their families were friendly and were neighbors. They had two children, a son Malcolm and a daughter Margaret.

On November 25, 1979, Ebright died in Berkeley, California at the age of 85. In 1996, Gregory Peck, one of Ebright's former students, donated $25,000 to the rowing crew in honor of his coach.{{Cite web|title=02.21.96 - >'Just One of the Guys'|url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1996/0221/guys.html|access-date=2020-09-16|website=www.berkeley.edu}}

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