Allen Jerome Morgan (July 16, 1925 – September 12, 2011) was an American rowing

coxswain The coxswain ( or ) is the person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering. The etymology of the word gives a literal meaning of "boat servant" since it comes from ''cock'', referring to the wiktionary:cockboat, cockboat, a ...

who competed in the

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. Born in

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, he coxed the American boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event in 1948.

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Allen Jerome Morgan's obituary
1925 births 2011 deaths American coxswains (rowing) Rowers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing American male rowers Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub