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Newnham College Boat Club
Newnham College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Newnham College, Cambridge. The club has a year-round senior squad and invites all members of the college to learn to row by joining the novice squads during Michaelmas or Easter terms.
In the Lent Bumps, the 1st VIII has rarely finished outside the top nine places, taking the headship in 1977, 1982, 1983, 2019 and 2022. In the May Bumps, the 1st IV and 1st VIII has never finished outside the top ten places, taking the headship in 1975, 1976, 2003, 2019 and 2022.
The club pioneered women's rowing at Cambridge University in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Women students at Newnham were coxing in the 1870s and rowing in the 1880s. The club was founded in 1893, as the Newnham College Rowing Society, making it one of the oldest continuously existing all-women's rowing clubs in the world.
Newnham first bought an VIII from First Trinity in 1918, and in 1919 the club made its racing debut against the London School of Medicine for Women, winning on the Thames by 1¾ lengths. This was followed by Newnham's first race against men in 1920, losing to the Anglican theological college Ridley Hall. By 1922 a second VIII had been purchased from Eton.
Newnham College Boat Club represented Cambridge in the Women's Boat Race from the inaugural race in 1927 until the wartime foundation, in 1941, of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club with members of Girton College, also catering (at that time) solely to women. All of the Cambridge rowers in 1941 were members of Newnham, the first non-Newnham rower (a Girtonian) competing the following year. The Cambridge victories in the early years, 1929 and 1930, were credited to Newnham College.
The first bumps races for women were held in 1974 and since then have continued to be major events in the club's calendar. In 1976 in the May Bumps, Newnham I were head on the 2nd day, and Newnham II were in 2nd position. No other women's club has managed to get a 2nd boat into 2nd place. The only men's club to have managed it was First Trinity, whose 2nd boat bumped its 1st boat in the 1875 races to finish in 2nd place behind Jesus. Newnham is, therefore, the only club (men or women) in the history of Cambridge Bumps racing to have held the top two places simultaneously.
In 2006 Newnham won the newly inaugurated Pegasus Cup for being "the most successful college boat club competing in the Cambridge May Bumping Races", with a points system that takes into account the number of boats competing in the races, thus favouring smaller boat clubs. They reclaimed the Cup in 2017. The May races in 2007 saw Newnham go up three places.
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Newnham College Boat Club
Newnham College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Newnham College, Cambridge. The club has a year-round senior squad and invites all members of the college to learn to row by joining the novice squads during Michaelmas or Easter terms.
In the Lent Bumps, the 1st VIII has rarely finished outside the top nine places, taking the headship in 1977, 1982, 1983, 2019 and 2022. In the May Bumps, the 1st IV and 1st VIII has never finished outside the top ten places, taking the headship in 1975, 1976, 2003, 2019 and 2022.
The club pioneered women's rowing at Cambridge University in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Women students at Newnham were coxing in the 1870s and rowing in the 1880s. The club was founded in 1893, as the Newnham College Rowing Society, making it one of the oldest continuously existing all-women's rowing clubs in the world.
Newnham first bought an VIII from First Trinity in 1918, and in 1919 the club made its racing debut against the London School of Medicine for Women, winning on the Thames by 1¾ lengths. This was followed by Newnham's first race against men in 1920, losing to the Anglican theological college Ridley Hall. By 1922 a second VIII had been purchased from Eton.
Newnham College Boat Club represented Cambridge in the Women's Boat Race from the inaugural race in 1927 until the wartime foundation, in 1941, of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club with members of Girton College, also catering (at that time) solely to women. All of the Cambridge rowers in 1941 were members of Newnham, the first non-Newnham rower (a Girtonian) competing the following year. The Cambridge victories in the early years, 1929 and 1930, were credited to Newnham College.
The first bumps races for women were held in 1974 and since then have continued to be major events in the club's calendar. In 1976 in the May Bumps, Newnham I were head on the 2nd day, and Newnham II were in 2nd position. No other women's club has managed to get a 2nd boat into 2nd place. The only men's club to have managed it was First Trinity, whose 2nd boat bumped its 1st boat in the 1875 races to finish in 2nd place behind Jesus. Newnham is, therefore, the only club (men or women) in the history of Cambridge Bumps racing to have held the top two places simultaneously.
In 2006 Newnham won the newly inaugurated Pegasus Cup for being "the most successful college boat club competing in the Cambridge May Bumping Races", with a points system that takes into account the number of boats competing in the races, thus favouring smaller boat clubs. They reclaimed the Cup in 2017. The May races in 2007 saw Newnham go up three places.
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