The origin of the name “ trudgeon,” applied to the overhand stroke in swimming, as distinct from the breast stroke and the side stroke, has often given rise to questions. It seemed to those words which sound like .he action they denote. “Trudgeon laborious effort. The stroke was first practised by a man named Trudgeon, a fitter employed on shipbuilding in the Isle of Dogs and Woolwich Arsenal. His name fitted his invention quite well.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 7
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