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When the New Emperor of Japan went to Henley
Crown Prince Naruhito is guided around the Schwarzenbach International Rowing Gallery by Paul Mainds, who was the Chief Executive of the River & Rowing Museum at that time. The photograph also...
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Yale are Favourites for the 154th Race
2019 U.S. national champions – Yale. Photo: Joel Furtek, Bulldogs website. 8 June 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn Today, it’s time for the 154th Yale-Harvard Race, America’s oldest collegiate sporting event,...
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Early Morning
9 June 2019 By Philip Kuepper The silver light hammered silver the river, silvered the rower who slid to a halt to catch his breath, north of the Seaport, south of I-95. The light turned white-gold...
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The Sound of Glass, Breaking
10 June 2019 By Philip Kuepper Just as dawn broke, the only sound was something not visible breaking the surface of the river. I assumed a fish drawn there by a water bug. Then a lone bird warbled, and...
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The Boat Race at 190
One of Ralf-Peter Stumme’s favorite Boat Race article (from a German newspaper from the 1870s). The author writes about the negative influence of sports to higher education. 10 June 2019 By Ralf-Peter...
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2019 Yale-Harvard Regatta: Yale 2 – Harvard 2
11 June 2019 By Göran R Buckhorn HTBS’s Göran R Buckhorn went to Red Top for the 154th Yale-Harvard Race on Saturday, 8 June. Here is his report. Saturday offered beautiful weather for the Yale-Harvard...
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Head Of The River: Oxford’s Toughest Test? (Part I)
In the foreground is the sign for the Head of the River pub, sited just upstream of Oxford’s college boathouses, and, in the background, Tom Tower, Christopher Wren’s bell tower of 1682 that strides...
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Head Of The River: Oxford’s Toughest Test? (Part II)
Oxford’s Boathouse Island, home to most of the college boat clubs and the finish point of the bump racing course. 13 June 2019 By Tim Koch Following yesterday’s Part I, Tim Koch posts the second part...
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Is this Rowing or Paddling?
What is this? 14 June 2019 By Larry Fogelberg The reader may have heard about or seen the way the Intha men on Lake Inle in Myanmar (Burma) propel their long, narrow boats. This video calls it...
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Australia, New Zealand and Latin American Countries Compete in Poznan
Photo: FISA 15 June 2019 The number of entries has swelled for the second World Rowing Cup for 2019. More than 800 athletes will compete in Poznan, Poland from 21 to 23 June, FISA, World Rowing, writes...
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What Became Eminent
16 June 2019 By Philip Kuepper My boyhood house was the ark I was a passenger on during the flood of years I was growing into a man, an ark wrecked when the state came paving over the years I lived...
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When Keble Went Head
Keble oarsmen getting ready for the Head of the River on Isis. Photo from Keble College website. 17 June 2019 By Anthony Hackett-Jones HTBS receives an e-mail from Anthony Hackett-Jones where he...
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The Bumps of May
HTBS was not able to attend the 2019 Cambridge May Bumps and so has resorted to posting a picture 105 years out of date. The St Catharine’s College First Eight had a good week in June 1914, bumping...
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The Cambridge Cardboard Boat Race
A MayWeek Sunday race in 2011. From Wikimedia Commons. 19 June 2019 By Louis Petrin Louis Petrin discovers a different ‘boat race’ on the Cam. May Week refers to a period at the end of the academic...
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The 1954 Boat Race: How Oxford Put Their Foot On The Gas?
Artifact discovered in the rowing history archives of the Richard Way Bookshop, Henley-on-Thames. 20 June 2019 By Tom Weil Tom Weil opens the bowels of rowing history. It has been the solemn duty of...
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Swingtime with Hitler
“Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August’’ by Oliver Hilmes. 21 June 2019 By Chris Dodd More Power, Hugh Matheson and Chris Dodd’s biography of Jurgen Grobler, and Leander’s volume on its first 200 years,...
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RRM Talk: The 1919 Royal Henley Peace Regatta
22 June 2019 On Monday, 1 July, Andrew Guerin, who is an Australian rowing historian and author of the Australian Rowing History website, and Bruce Coe, who is an Australian sports historian with...
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The Real Not Real
23 June 2019 By Philip Kuepper When oars enter water they appear to bend. Lift them, and they are rod-straight, again. Are they a tangible example of light bending? There are days I feel the whole of...
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World Cup II: Australia and New Zealand Top the Medals Table
Double sculls – from left to right: Genevra Stone and Cicely Madden, USA (silver); Brooke Donoghue and Olivia Loe, New Zealand (gold); Genevieve Horten and Amanda Bateman, Australia (bronze). Photo:...
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