….BRAD TAYLOR, author of a splendid book on UW rowing, “Wisconsin Where They Row,” sent along a note over the weekend saying Carl Holtz had died Saturday morning. He was 85 and had lived with his family on a large family farm near Mukwonago.
Holtz, who in 1999 was inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame, was a member of some of UW-Madison’s top crew teams in the 1940s, serving as stroke on the team in 1946 when the Badgers won the very first Eastern Sprints, the championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges….