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The Boat Race 1912
The 69th Boat Race took place on 30 March 1912 with a re-row on 1 April. Held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the previous year's race. Umpired by former Cambridge rower Frederick I. Pitman, this year's race ended with Cambridge sinking and Oxford waterlogged. Pitman declared the result as "No Race" and in the subsequent re-row on the following Monday, the race was won by Oxford by six lengths. The Dark Blues' fourth consecutive victory took the overall record in the event to 38–30 in their favour.
==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. The rivalry is a major point of honour between the two universities; it is followed throughout the United Kingdom and, as of 2014, broadcast worldwide. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the previous year's race by three-and-three-quarter lengths. Oxford, however, held the overall lead with 37 victories to Cambridge's 30 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877).
Oxford's coaches were G. C. Bourne who had rowed for the university in the 1882 and 1883 races, Harcourt Gilbey Gold (Dark Blue president for the 1900 race and four-time Blue), and W. F. C. Holland who had rowed for Oxford four times between 1887 and 1890. Cambridge were coached by John Houghton Gibbon who rowed for the Light Blues in the 1899 and 1900 races.〔Burnell, pp. 110–111〕 For the ninth year the umpire was old Etonian Frederick I. Pitman who rowed for Cambridge in the 1884, 1885 and 1886 races.〔Burnell, pp. 49, 108〕
Author and former Oxford rower George Drinkwater noted that the Dark Blue crew was "by no means so quick in the water, but they possessed greater ease of movement".〔Drinkwater, pp. 127–128〕 Despite being struck by influenza, the training was never really hampered. Conversely, Cambridge suffered "misfortune after misfortune".〔Drinkwater, p. 128〕 They persisted with D. C. Collins at stroke "in spite of his inexperience" but he was replaced by Sidney Swann. F. E. Hellyer was selected to row at number seven yet was forced to depart, suffering from influenza; his replacement in L. S. Lloyd was considered "far too light".〔 C. F. Burnand was also forced to leave the crew through illness. Despite this, upon arrival at Putney, the Light Blues "made astonishing improvement", and it was "only on account of their weight" that Oxford went into the race as favourites.〔
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