Torpids 1858

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STANDINGS Start Finish Pos College Pts Pts College 1 Exeter 15 13 Pembroke 2 Pembroke 10 10 Brasenose 3 Christ Church 8 8 Exeter 4 Brasenose 7 7 University 5 University 6 6 Christ Church 6 Balliol 4 4 Trinity 7 Trinity 4 4 Balliol 8 Oriel 3 3 Worcester 9 Worcester 2 2 Corpus Christi 10 Wadham 2 2 Lincoln 11 Lincoln 1 2 Oriel 12 Corpus Christi 1 0 Wadham

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg Corpus Christi 1[ 2] 4[ 1] 4.00[ 1] Brasenose 1[ 2] 2[ 2] 2.00[ 2] Worcester 1[ 2] 2[ 2] 2.00[ 2] Lincoln 1[ 2] 2[ 2] 2.00[ 2] Pembroke 1[ 2] 1[ 5] 1.00[ 5] University 1[ 2] 1[ 5] 1.00[ 5] Trinity 1[ 2] 1[ 5] 1.00[ 5] Balliol 1[ 2] -1[ 8] -1.00[ 8] Christ Church 1[ 2] -2[ 9] -2.00[ 9] Oriel 1[ 2] -3[10] -3.00[10] Wadham 1[ 2] -988[11] -988.00[12] Exeter 2[ 1] -992[12] -496.00[11]

• 6 days: Wed 24, Fri 26, Sat 27 Feb, Mon 1, Mon 8 and Tue 9 March 1858
• First appearance of Corpus Christi in Torpids.

• Notes from Sherwood

  Christ Church and Brasenose rowed in the new style of boats [ie with riggers, with rowers in-line], the first yet used in Torpid races.

  The races were postponed, on March 1, 'to the first open day,' owing to severe frost, with disaster to the head boat [see below].

  On the last day but one Balliol took off, 'expecting to be able to rebump Trinity and regain their place. This, as might have been expected, they were unable to do (Trinity book).

  Lincoln ran into the bank, and Corpus ran into their coxswain's back and upset.

• From the main text of Sherwood (p.46):

  Exeter started head of the river, and being in good training kept their place with credit for four days. Then the ice on the river stopped the races for a week. In this interval some of the crew went partially out of training. The result was that they were bumped on March 8 by Pembroke at Saunders' Bridge

• In other news ... [1858]

  Monarch: Victoria

  Prime Minister: Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Conservative)

  February 13

  Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika.

  February 20

  Derby becomes Prime Minister of a minority government upon the resignation of Lord Palmerston following a parliamentary defeat to an opposition motion which, in the context of a failed plot to assassinate Napoleon III of France, charged that 'the ministry had admitted they sheltered aassassins'.

  March 13

  Felice Orsini is executed by guillotine, for the attempted assassination of Napoleon III of France.

  March 21

  Indian Rebellion: British troops retake Lucknow.

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