Brasenose College Boat Club
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Brasenose College Boat Club (BNCBC) is the rowing club of Brasenose College, Oxford, in Oxford, England. It is one of the oldest boat clubs in the world, having beaten Jesus College Boat Club in the first modern rowing race, held at Oxford in 1815. Although rowing at schools such as Eton College and Westminster School predates this,[1] the 1815 contest is the first recorded race between rowing clubs anywhere in the world.
Home water | River Thames (known in Oxford as the Isis) | |||||
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Founded | terminus ante quem 1815 | |||||
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University | University of Oxford | |||||
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Affiliations | British Rowing (boat code BRC) Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Sister college) | |||||
Website | www |
In addition to the 1815 "headship", the club has won both the Summer Eights and Torpids headship many times, and has recorded numerous victories in most events at the Henley Royal Regatta.
The club's colours are black and gold, with black blades. The 1st VIII, however, may wear the distinctive "Childe of Hale" colours — red, purple and gold — which are traditional in Brasenose rowing.[2]