Herbert Roger Morris (July 16, 1915 – July 22, 2009) was an American rower, born in Seattle, an Olympic gold medallist at Berlin 1936. 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 The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

, he won the gold medal rowing in the bow seat of the American boat in the men's eight competition. Morris was a mechanical engineering graduate. In his professional career he worked on large scale

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projects in the Seattle area.Brown, Daniel James (2013). ''The Boys In The Boat'', Viking / Penguin Group, New York. .

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Herbert Morris at databaseOlympics.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Herbert 1915 births 2009 deaths Rowers from Seattle American male rowers Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing University of Washington alumni Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics