The 72nd Boat Race took place on 27 March 1920. Generally held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities...
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The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the men's senior boat clubs of the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark...
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The 94th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1948. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 74th Boat Race took place on 1 April 1922. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 75th Boat Race took place on 24 March 1923. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 93rd Boat Race took place on 29 March 1947. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 73rd Boat Race took place on 30 March 1921. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 98th Boat Race took place on 29 March 1952. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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Harvard–Yale Regatta (redirect from Harvard-Yale Boat Race)
The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of...
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The 99th Boat Race took place on 28 March 1953. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 92nd Boat Race took place on 30 March 1946. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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The 91st Boat Race took place on 1 April 1939. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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Motorboat (redirect from Motor boat)
won the race in 1904, and the boat Napier II set a new world water speed record for a mile at almost 30 knots (56 km/h), winning the race in 1905. The acknowledged...
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The 71st Boat Race took place on 28 March 1914. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford...
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finishes in the Round Island Channel, off Mackinac Island, Michigan. The race course runs 333 mi (536 km). In 2011, 361 boats entered the race. Steve Fossett...
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Jack Kelly Sr. (rower) (category Rowers at the 1920 Summer Olympics)
the 1950s, he wrote to Jack Beresford, the winner of the 1920 Henley Diamond Sculls race, the following: "Russell Johnson, secretary of the NAAO [the...
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John Campbell (rower) (category Rowers at the 1920 Summer Olympics)
in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Campbell was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in...
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The Scottish Boat Race, also known as the Edinburgh vs. Glasgow Boat Race, is an annual rowing race between the University of Glasgow and the University...
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boat traveling south forced her to engage with race for the first time. While the central characters in Ferber's novel are predominantly white, the inclusion...
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Cities Boat Race. From 1847 to 1920 another boat club of the same name had a close association with the predecessors to MUBC. This Nemesis Boat Club was...
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Garfield Wood (redirect from Gar Wood boats)
miles per hour (121 km/h) in 1920 on the Detroit River, using a new twin Liberty V-12 powered boat called Miss America. In the following twelve years, Wood...
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Match racing (redirect from Match race)
racing in which two similar boats go head to head in a race or set of races to decide which boat has the better crew competing on board. In sailing there are...
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Robin Johnstone (category Rowers at the 1920 Summer Olympics)
the 1920 Summer Olympics. Johnstone was born at Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge University. He coxed Cambridge in The Boat Race in...
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Sebastian Earl (category Rowers at the 1920 Summer Olympics)
and in 1920 he was a member of the Oxford crew rowing four times in the Boat Race. Earl was also a member of the Leander eight which won the silver medal...
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Oxford and Cambridge Cup (redirect from Australian Universities Boat Race)
(formerly the Australian Universities Boat Race), and is competed for annually at the Australian University Games or the Australian University Rowing Championships...
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(24 m) Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands...
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This is a list of the Oxford University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. A coxswain or oarsman earns their rowing...
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12 Metre (section The formula and rules)
1907. The 12 Metre class was used in the Olympic Games of 1908, 1912 and 1920 but few boats participated in these events. The 12 Metre class boats are best...
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events from 1920: Juan de la Cierva y Cordoniu invents the autogyro. His first autogyro, the Cierva C.1, fails to become airborne, but is the first aircraft...
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Canada. The Canadian team had to use a borrowed boat when their own did not arrive in Antwerp. One of the riggers cracked immediately before the race started;...
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