Eights 1825

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STANDINGS Start Finish Pos College Pts Pts College 1 Exeter 4 4 Christ Church 2 Christ Church 3 3 Exeter 3 Worcester 2 2 Worcester 4 Balliol 1 1 Balliol

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg Christ Church 1[ 1] 1[ 1] 1.00[ 1] Worcester 1[ 1] 0[ 2] 0.00[ 2] Balliol 1[ 1] 0[ 2] 0.00[ 2] Exeter 1[ 1] -1[ 4] -1.00[ 4]

• Information from Sherwood, citing Woodgate and Knollys as sources.
• First appearance of Balliol and Worcester
• From Sherwood

  [Woodgate] says that Smyth stroked the Christ Church boat. It is probable that in this and subsequent years more boats were on than are recorded.

• From the main text of Sherwood

  In [1825] the races start above, not in, the lock. As the reason given for this change was that there were too many boats now racing for them all to get into the lock together, either our records, which give only four boats, must be incomplete, or three boats must have been the limit of the lock's capacity. The method of starting now changed. The boats were arranged at intervals of fifty feet apart. A stick, afterwards painted in the college colours, marked the position of each boat, and an umpire, or in the later days three umpires, was appointed to see that each was in its place. Wyatt, the lock-keeper, stood in the middle and asked 'Are you ready?' and it was only on getting 'Yes' from all the umpires that he fired his pistol. The term 'Torpid,' as applied to second boats, seems to have arisen about this time, but it was not until a later date that the Torpids had races separate from the Eights.

• In other news ... [1825]

  Monarch: George IV

  Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool (Tory)

  May 26

  Two Unitarian Christian bodies, the American Unitarian Association in the United States and the British and Foreign Unitarian Association in the United Kingdom are founded, coincidentally on the same date.

  June 15

  Work on the new London Bridge, designed by John Rennie, begins.

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