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Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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sformed, and two challenge races—the UniversityFours and the University Pairs—were instituted.The Sculls were added two years later. ThePairs as well as the Fours were originally rowedin the October term, while the race for theSculls took place in the Lent term. In 1852and 1857 respectively, the Sculls and Pairs were tinuous, and the changes and additions madefrom time to time have been chiefly in mattersof detail. The Eights were originally rowed fora more or less indefinite number of nights, theearliest idea being that every boat must haveits night ; that is to say that the evenings onwhich racing should be held must be equal innumber to the boats competing ; so that thebottom boat should have its chance of rowinghead of the river. ^Vhen the crews had foundtheir level, however, the races appear usually tohave been stopped by common consent. Inthese early times the races did not take placeon consecutive nights, but at somewhat irregularintervals. Subsequently the number of nights
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K rowing) ■JHE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SlORl was limited to eight and finally to six, and theracing evenings—except where Sunday inter-vened—were made consecutive. College Rowing at Modern Oxford—The rowing year at Oxford of to-day may besaid to begin in October and end with the closeof the summer term in the following June.This is true at any rate from the point of viewof the colleges. From the point of view of theUniversity Boat Club the division is a differentone, but this is a matter that will be referredto later. At the beginning of the Octoberterm each college devotes itself largely to thecoaching of its freshmen and junior oarsmen.At the same time, if it is a prominent rowingcollege and can put on a sufficiently good crew,it will enter a four for the Coxswainless Fours,an event which takes place early in November.\ery few colleges are, as a rule, representedin this race, and the majority can devote them-selves exclusively to fashioning their raw mate-rial with a view to future

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