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  2. College rowing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1852 – Yale challenges Harvard to a rowing race and the first Harvard-Yale Boat Race is held. This is also the first intercollegiate event held in the United States. Since 1864 this race has been held annually and since 1878, with few exceptions, it has been raced on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. 1864 – Rowing became the ...

  3. Rowing Association of American Colleges - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Intercollegiate Rowing Association - Wikipedia

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    It is the direct successor to the Rowing Association of American Colleges, the first collegiate athletic organization in the United States, [2] which operated from 1870–1894. The IRA was founded by Cornell , Columbia , and Penn in 1894 and its first annual regatta was hosted on June 24, 1895.

  5. Rowing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American Henley Regatta was the first national championships for the sport of rowing in the United States. The first regatta was held in 1903 in Philadelphia, and was meant to be equivalent to the Henley Royal Regatta in the United Kingdom. [3] The regatta was alternately held in Philadelphia and Boston. It was run by the American Rowing ...

  6. History of rowing sports - Wikipedia

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    The first American race took place on the Schuylkill River in 1762 between 6-oared barges. As the sport gained popularity, clubs were formed and scullers began racing for prizes. Professionals were rowing against clubs and each other before the civil war. Races were often round trips to a stake and back, so that the start and finish could be ...

  7. Harvard–Yale Regatta - Wikipedia

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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 .

  8. ‘Heart of Champions’ Review: College Rowing Drama Treads ...

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    As inspirational college sports movies go, “Heart of the Champions” doesn’t go, or row, nearly far enough off the beaten path. It’s every bit as boilerplate as its generic title might ...

  9. Poughkeepsie Regatta - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, this evolved into a format that included an annual two-mile Freshman Eight race, followed by a three-mile Junior Varsity Eight race, and finally the four-mile Varsity Eight race. In 1923 the University of Washington became the first Western crew team to win the Poughkeepsie Regatta.