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4 unusual facts about Trinity College Boat Club


Trinity College Boat Club

A Trinity rower in 1831 by the name of James Pycroft detailed how the men within the team would pay for a boat for college themselves, and would levy a rate upon all members of the college to help pay as ‘it being considered that the boat and its anticipated victories were for the honour of the college generally’.

The club's members are students and staff from Trinity College and, occasionally, associate members from other Colleges.

Another nineteen years passed with rowing at Trinity growing in its importance within the college, until finally during the Eights in 1861, Trinity bumped University College, Oxford, BNC, Exeter and finally Balliol College to go Head of the River.

Trinity’s first rowing Blues are both depicted in the earliest known depiction of a Trinity crew, from 1842.



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