Word: putney
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earliest eight-oared race was one between a London crew and Christ Church, Oxford, for $200, in 1828. It was rowed from Westminister to Putney, and won by London by 70 yards. The following year the first race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities took place on Henley Reach, a distance of two miles and a quarter, and was won by Oxford...
...annual boat race between the eight-oared crews of Oxford and Cambridge universities, which causes universal interest throughout the United Kingdom, will soon be rowed upon the Thames between Putney and Mortlake. The crews are of the average weight, although the Cambridge men are some five pounds lighter than their opponents from Oxford...
Both crews will, in all probability, leave their universities this week, the Cambridge eight going to Putney direct while the Oxonians will make a visit of some ten days' duration at Bourne End, in response to the hospitable invitation of Mr. Hammersley. The boat which Swaddle is building for the crews will be ready very soon...
...very improbable that the Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed over the usual course this year. Only two apertures are available in the Hammersmith bridge, and the boat which took the middle course would lose two or three lengths. It is proposed to row the race from Westminster to Putney, the course over which the race was rowed at the beginning of the contests...
...freshmen, Etonians mostly, who had not yet outgrown their salad days. Now our "young barbarians" of Oxford and Cambridge kick away at each other's shins as keenly as they hit each other's bowling about the Lord's, or tug away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care as for cricket ; nay, it is whispered that professional players for the former are almost as much in demand as for the latter game, and get pretty nearly...