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New College Boat Club
New College Boat Club (NCBC) is the rowing club for members of New College, Oxford. The club's existence can be dated to 1840 when it first raced on The Isis in Oxford.
The club shares a boathouse on The Isis (part of the Thames) with Balliol College Boat Club, as well as using boat racks at Godstow for the Men's and Women's first boats.
Partly due to the college's status as one of the smallest colleges in Oxford and its disproportionately small number of undergraduates, New College's initial presence and performance in college bumps racing was poor. Their first recorded Eights campaign in 1840 started and ended at the bottom of the bumps chart ('footship'), and involved several days where the college failed to put out a crew. Following this, New entered a boat in just two of the following 23 years of Eights, despite a rule that permitted them and other weaker colleges to form composite crews.
An improvement occurred in the late 1860s, as after decades of sporadic entries, New College entered crews for every Eights campaign from 1864 to 1867 and 1869 onwards. Their fortunes were initially somewhat erratic: the club might fall or rise as much as seven spots in a given year (Eights consisted of eight days of racing until 1878 and six days thereafter). However, a rapid ascent in the Torpids chart from footship in 1875 to headship in 1882 indicated the club's changing fortunes. A few years later, Eights performance also stabilised at a high level, when NCBC climbed to third place for the first time.
1885 proved to be a watershed, after which the club enjoyed prominence at or near the top of the Eights table for decades: 1887 marked New College's first headship, one of several over the following years, with the club often staying at the Head of the River for several years at a time, as occurred from 1896 to 1899 and 1911 to 1913. From 1886 to 1922, New College always placed third or better in Eights.
A key feature of the pre-war era was the development of an intense rivalry with Magdalen College. Magdalen, like New, finished in the top three at Eights without fail from 1886 to 1913: in each year, the clubs raced from adjacent bunglines and either threatened or achieved a bump on each other. Given their unparalleled dominance (the remaining spot in the top three was held by several different colleges over this period), it was natural that a 1900 account referred to the two colleges as ‘the two great rivals of later days’. This sporting enmity was later cemented in the Stockholm Olympics incident of 1912.
The New College Boat Club represented Great Britain at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and won the silver medal in the men's eight.
The two British crews - New College, and a Leander Club boat largely drawn from Magdalen College, Oxford - were the favourites for gold so started at opposite ends of the draw. They both worked up through the competition to make the final.
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New College Boat Club
New College Boat Club (NCBC) is the rowing club for members of New College, Oxford. The club's existence can be dated to 1840 when it first raced on The Isis in Oxford.
The club shares a boathouse on The Isis (part of the Thames) with Balliol College Boat Club, as well as using boat racks at Godstow for the Men's and Women's first boats.
Partly due to the college's status as one of the smallest colleges in Oxford and its disproportionately small number of undergraduates, New College's initial presence and performance in college bumps racing was poor. Their first recorded Eights campaign in 1840 started and ended at the bottom of the bumps chart ('footship'), and involved several days where the college failed to put out a crew. Following this, New entered a boat in just two of the following 23 years of Eights, despite a rule that permitted them and other weaker colleges to form composite crews.
An improvement occurred in the late 1860s, as after decades of sporadic entries, New College entered crews for every Eights campaign from 1864 to 1867 and 1869 onwards. Their fortunes were initially somewhat erratic: the club might fall or rise as much as seven spots in a given year (Eights consisted of eight days of racing until 1878 and six days thereafter). However, a rapid ascent in the Torpids chart from footship in 1875 to headship in 1882 indicated the club's changing fortunes. A few years later, Eights performance also stabilised at a high level, when NCBC climbed to third place for the first time.
1885 proved to be a watershed, after which the club enjoyed prominence at or near the top of the Eights table for decades: 1887 marked New College's first headship, one of several over the following years, with the club often staying at the Head of the River for several years at a time, as occurred from 1896 to 1899 and 1911 to 1913. From 1886 to 1922, New College always placed third or better in Eights.
A key feature of the pre-war era was the development of an intense rivalry with Magdalen College. Magdalen, like New, finished in the top three at Eights without fail from 1886 to 1913: in each year, the clubs raced from adjacent bunglines and either threatened or achieved a bump on each other. Given their unparalleled dominance (the remaining spot in the top three was held by several different colleges over this period), it was natural that a 1900 account referred to the two colleges as ‘the two great rivals of later days’. This sporting enmity was later cemented in the Stockholm Olympics incident of 1912.
The New College Boat Club represented Great Britain at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and won the silver medal in the men's eight.
The two British crews - New College, and a Leander Club boat largely drawn from Magdalen College, Oxford - were the favourites for gold so started at opposite ends of the draw. They both worked up through the competition to make the final.
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