The Boat Race 1961: Difference between revisions

[[The Boat Race]] is a [[Rowing (sport)#Side by side|side-by-side rowing]] competition between the [[University of Oxford]] (sometimes referred to as the "Dark Blues")<ref name=blues>{{Cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/apr/06/theobserver | work = [[The Observer]] | title = Dark Blues aim to punch above their weight | date = 6 April 2003 | accessdate = 12 July 2014 }}</ref> and the [[University of Cambridge]] (sometimes referred to as the "Light Blues").<ref name=blues/> First held in 1829, the race takes place on the {{convert|4.2|mi|km|adj=on}} [[The Championship Course|Championship Course]] on the [[River Thames]] in southwest London.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10719622/University-Boat-Race-2014-spectators-guide.html | work = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | accessdate = 12 July 2014 | date = 25 March 2014 |title = University Boat Race 2014: spectators' guide | first = Oliver |last =Smith}}</ref> 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.<ref name=CBC>{{cite news|title=Former Winnipegger in winning Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race crew|date=6 April 2014|publisher=[[CBC News]]|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/former-winnipegger-in-winning-oxford-cambridge-boat-race-crew-1.2600176|accessdate=9 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://theboatraces.org/tv-and-radio | title = TV and radio | publisher = The Boat Race Company Limited | accessdate = 12 July 2014}}</ref> Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the [[The Boat Race 1960|1960 race]] by one-and-a-quarter lengths,<ref name=results/> while Cambridge led overall with 58 victories to Oxford's 47 (excluding the [[The Boat Race 1877|"dead heat" of 1877]]).<ref>{{Cite web | url= http://theboatraces.org/classic-moments-the-1877-dead-heat | publisher = The Boat Race Company Limited | title = Classic moments – the 1877 dead heat | accessdate = 12 July 2014| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141028142809/http://theboatraces.org/classic-moments-the-1877-dead-heat | archivedate= 28 October 2014}}</ref> Cambridge had not lost three consecutive races since the [[The Boat Race 1913|1913 race]].<ref name=results/><ref>{{Cite news | title = Boat race rehearsal | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = 1 April 1961 | page = 6}}</ref>

 

 

The race was umpired by George Douglas "Jock" Clapperton who had [[Coxswain (rowing)|coxed]] Oxford in the [[The Boat Race 1923|1923]] and [[The Boat Race 1924|1924 races]] as well as umpiring in the [[The Boat Race 1959|1959 boat race]].<ref>Burnell, pp. 49, 71&ndash;72</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives/online-catalogues/george-stevens-papers/photo-album/ | publisher = [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] | title = MC:P37/P1 Photograph Album | accessdate = 28 September 2014}}</ref><ref name=crushed>{{Cite news | title = Cambridge are crushed by power display | first = Donald | last = Legget | date = 26 March 1967 | work = [[The Observer]] | page = 16}}</ref> He was accompanied in the umpire's boat by [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon|Antony Armstrong-Jones]], husband of [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]], who had coxed Cambridge to victory in the [[The Boat Race 1950|1950 race]].<ref name=collapse/><ref>{{Cite web | url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cVUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36 | work = [[Life (magazine)|Life]] | title = Introduction to Tony, the Princess's fiance | page = 36 | date = 7 March 1960}}</ref>