Variations on the crawl stroke were promoted by the Cavill brothers, who originated the “Australian crawl,” and by John Trudgen, who promoted a stroke he had learned from Indigenous people in ...

These techniques include the backstroke, freestyle/front crawl, breaststroke and butterfly, but there are other types, such as the elementary backstroke, combat sidestroke, the Trudgen stroke and ...

The fastest “stroke” evolved from the breaststroke…to the sidestroke…to the overarm sidestroke…to the trudgen stroke…to the Australian crawl…to the modern stroke that we call ...

The first swimmer to complete the course was Robert Dowling* in 1915, using the trudgen stroke. Dowling went on to become a wealthy businessman and philanthropist. He donated a college to the city ...