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The Great International Boat Race was a bespoke rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Harvard University Boat Club. The side-by-side rowing race took place on 27 August 1869 between coxed fours on The Championship Course—also used for The Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Club. The Oxford crew won.
Origin
Harvard had originally planned to challenge both the Oxford and Cambridge eights crews at an international regatta in 1867 which was part of the world fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris but did not think they would be competitive enough to compete and abandoned this plan. Harvard then sent a challenge to race in England, Coxswain (rowing)
Crews
| Seat | Oxford 
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| Name | Weight | Name | Weight | |||||
| Bow | F. Willan | 12 st 0 lb (76 kg) | J. S. Fay | 11 st 1 lb (70 kg) | ||||
| 2 | A. C. Yarborough | 12 st 3 lb (78 kg) | F. O. Lyman | 11 st 0 lb (70 kg) | ||||
| 3 | J. C. Tinne | 13 st 7 lb (86 kg) | W. H. Simmons | 12 st 3 lb (78 kg) | ||||
| Stroke | S. D. Darbishire | 11 st 6 lb (73 kg) | A. P. Loring | 10 st 6 lb (66 kg) | ||||
| Cox | F. H. Hall | 7 st 4 lb (46 kg) | A. Burnham | 7 st 7 lb (48 kg) | ||||
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- Notes
- The method of numbering the men in boats was different in the two countries at the time; the modern convention starting at the bow has been used here.
The Race
The Harvard crew won the toss and elected to race on the "Middlesex side" from the north station.
Footnotes
- Durick 1988, pp. 46–47.
- ^ Blaikie 1869, p. 66.
- NYT 1869, p. 1.
- Blaikie 1869.
- Conway 1869.
References
- Durick, William G. (Spring 1988). "The Gentlemen's Race: An Examination of the 1869 Harvard-Oxford Boat Race" (PDF). Journal of Sport History. 15 (1): 41–63.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - "The Race". The New York Times. Vol. XVIII, no. 5595. Newspapers.com. 28 August 1869. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- Blaikie, William (December 1869). "The University Boat Race". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 40 (235): 49–68.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Conway, M. D. (November 1869). "The International Boat-Race". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 39 (234): 912–915.
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