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The Harvard–Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of Harvard University and Yale University. First contested in 1852, it has been held annually since 1859 with exceptions during major wars fought by the United States and the COVID-19 pandemic .
Washington raced both Harvard and Yale for the first time at this event and defeated Yale by eight lengths to win the championship. [9] Washington counts this victory among its string of Men’s National Varsity Eight Championships. [10] † Navy was disqualified from the IRA Regatta for use of an ineligible coxswain. Trophies won by Navy were ...
The Rowing Association of American Colleges (1870 to 1894) the first collegiate athletic organization in the United States, was a body governing college rowing. [1] Upon organization by the captains of the leading crews of the day, they devised a primary rule of eligibility: that only undergraduate students should be eligible to represent their college in the regatta.
The Goldthwait Cup is awarded to the winner of the annual triangular regatta among the varsity lightweight eight-oared crews of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.The trophy was presented in 1926 by Henry Kimball Prince (Harvard Class of 1924) — captain of the first Harvard lightweight varsity eight to defeat both Princeton and Yale — and made retroactive to reflect the H-Y-P regatta results ...
1973 – Princeton women's eight wins New England Intercollegiate Regatta championship (forerunner to EAWRC Women's Eastern Sprints). 1975 – The University of Wisconsin women's rowing team wins NWRA National Championship. 1976 – The Yale women's rowing team strips in front of the Yale athletic director to demand equal opportunity under ...
James Morris Whiton Jr. (April 11, 1833 – January 25, 1920) was a teacher, linguist, lexicographer and clergyman. He is credited with creating the first Harvard-Yale Regatta in 1853, and is notable as one of the first three individuals to earn a PhD at an American university, earning the degree in classics at Yale University in 1861.
This year's HY Regatta follows the end of the spring semester, Yale commencement (May 20), Harvard commencement (May 30), and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship regatta (June 1-3). The long history of primarily June dates suggests to me that it may always have followed the spring semester.
Wailes and his Yale teammates represented the United States in the 1956 Olympic team after defeating other collegiate teams in the eight-man Olympic trial. At the Olympic trials Wailes and his crewmates set a world record in 5 minutes, 52 seconds. Wailes's crews defeated Harvard four consecutive years in the Harvard–Yale Regatta.