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The Boat Race 1859
The 16th Boat Race took place on 15 April 1859. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. In extremely rough conditions, and after Cambridge's request for a postponement was rejected, Oxford won as Cambridge sank, the first time in the history of the event that one of the crews did not complete the course.
==Background==
The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues") and the University of Cambridge (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").〔 The race was first held in 1829, and since 1845 has taken place on the Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London. Cambridge went into the race as reigning champions, having defeated Oxford by seven-and-a-half lengths in the previous year's race. They led overall with nine wins to Oxford's six.
For the 1859 race, Oxford instigated a new method of crew selection: trial eights. Prior to this, the selection of crew was made on the recommendations of the College boat club captains. Oxford boat club president John Arkell remarked "it will not do to trust too much the jugdment ''(sic)'' of the College captains."〔MacMichael, p. 255–56〕 Following a race between the two trial eights, the final crew was selected eight weeks prior to the race. Cambridge would not introduce this selection method until the 1868 race.〔MacMichael, p. 256〕 Oxford began training on 14 March with an outing almost every day between then and 13 April. Cambridge, on the other hand, arrived in London six days before the race and made just three outings on the Thames.〔MacMichael, pp. 256–60〕 The race was umpired by Joseph William Chitty who had rowed for Oxford twice in 1849 (in the March and December races) and the 1852 race.〔Drinkwater, p. 54〕〔Burnell, p. 97〕
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