Harvard-Yale Regatta

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The Yale-Harvard Boat Race or Harvard-Yale Regatta is an annual rowing race between Yale and Harvard universities. First contested in 1852, annually since 1859 except during major wars fought by the United States, The Race is America's oldest collegiate athletic competition, predating The Game by 23 years. Originally rowed on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, it has since moved to the Thames River, New London, Connecticut. Although other locations for the race have included the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. and Lake Quinsigamond at Worcester, Mass., the Thames has hosted The Race on all but 5 occasions since 1878 and both teams have erected permanent training camps on the Thames at Gales Ferry for Yale and at Red Top for Harvard. The race has been exclusively between Harvard and Yale except for 1897 when the race was held as part of a three boat race with Cornell on the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York, where, although it lost to Cornell, Yale was deemed the winner of the Harvard-Yale race.^[1][2]

Contents 1 History 2 Results 3 See also 4 External links 5 References

[edit] History

The first race was held over 2 miles (3.2 km) but this was changed to 3 miles (4.8 km) for all the races up to 1875, when both universities agreed on the current length of 4 miles (6.4 km).

Originally the race occurred between just the varsity crew but now there are 3 races held on the day, the 2 mile (3.2 km) freshmen race, the 3 mile (4.8 km) junior varsity and finally the 4 mile (6.4 km) varsity match.

Typically the day before the freshman, junior varsity and varsity races, there is a 2 mile (3.2 km) race between the spares for both crews. These "combination" boats are made up of second freshman boat and third varsity boat rowers (i.e. the "combi" or "combo" race). The winner of this race gets the James P. Snider Cup, as well as the right to paint its school's colors on the "rock" at Bartlett's Cove near the north end of the race course.

Currently Harvard leads the varsity series at 88-53, the second varsity (JV) at 68-36, and the freshman series at 63-39-1. Harvard also holds the upstream record with its time of 18:41.9 in 1995. Yale's fastest upstream time (18:45.5) was also posted that year. The Crimson set the downstream--and Thames River course--mark of 18:22.4 in 1980.

See also The Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

[edit] Results

• Harvard: 88 wins
• Yale: 53 wins

This is an incomplete list compiled from various sources [2] [3].

Date Winner Time Direction 1852 Harvard (2 lengths) 1855 Harvard 22:47 1859 Harvard 19:18 1860 Harvard 18:53 1864 Yale 19:01 1865 Yale 18:42.5 1866 Harvard 18:43.5 1867 Harvard 18:12.75 1868 Harvard 17:48.5 1869 Harvard 18:02 1870 Harvard 20:30 1872 Harvard 16:57 1873 Yale 16:59 1874 Harvard 16:56 1875 Yale 17:05 1876 Yale 22:02 1877 Harvard 24:36 1878 Harvard 20:44.75 Downstream 1879 Harvard 22:15 Downstream 1880 Yale 24:27 Downstream 1881 Yale 22:13 Downstream 1882 Harvard 20:47.5 Downstream 1883 Harvard 25:46.5 Downstream 1884 Yale 20:31 Downstream 1885 Harvard 25:15.5 Downstream 1886 Yale 20:42 Upstream 1887 Yale 22:56 Downstream 1888 Yale 20:10 Downstream 1889 Yale 21:30 Upstream 1890 Yale 21:29 Downstream 1891 Harvard 21:23 Upstream 1892 Yale 20:48 Downstream 1893 Yale 25:01.5 Downstream 1894 Yale 23:45.5 Downstream 1895 Yale 21:30 Downstream 1897 Yale 20:44 1898 Yale 24:02 Upstream 1899 Harvard 20:52.5 Downstream 1900 Yale 21:12.8 Downstream 1901 Yale 23:37 Downstream 1902 Yale 20:20 Downstream 1903 Yale 20:19.8 Downstream 1904 Yale 21:40.5 Upstream 1905 Yale 22:33.5 Upstream 1906 Harvard 23:02 Downstream 1911 Harvard 1925 Yale 1934 Yale 1947 Harvard 1952 Harvard 1954 Yale

Date Winner Time Direction 1955 Yale 1956 Yale 1957 Yale 1958 Yale 1959 Harvard 1960 Harvard 1961 Harvard 1962 Yale 1963 Harvard 1964 Harvard 1965 Harvard 1966 Harvard 1967 Harvard 1968 Harvard 1969 Harvard 1970 Harvard 1971 Harvard 1972 Harvard 1973 Harvard 1974 Harvard 1975 Harvard 1976 Harvard 1977 Harvard 1978 Harvard 1979 Harvard 1980 Harvard 18:22.4 Downstream 1981 Yale 1982 Yale 1983 Yale 1984 Yale 1985 Harvard 1986 Harvard 1987 Harvard 1988 Harvard 1989 Harvard 1990 Harvard 1991 Harvard 1992 Harvard 1993 Harvard 1994 Harvard 1995 Harvard 18:45.5 Upstream 1996 Yale Downstream June 1, 1997 Harvard 22:06.8 Upstream June 6, 1998 Harvard 20:32.3 Upstream June 5, 1999 Yale Downstream June 10, 2000 Harvard 19:44.4 Upstream June 3, 2001 Harvard 18:55.6 Upstream June 8, 2002 Harvard 19:02.5 Upstream June 7, 2003 Harvard 18:54.4 Upstream June 12, 2004 Harvard 18:42.1 Upstream June 11, 2005 Harvard 19:20.4 Upstream June 11, 2006 Harvard 23:22.6 Upstream

[edit] See also

• Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian), Harvard-Yale boat race, 1852-1924, and the coming of sport to the American college (1993)
• "The Calling," a film by documentarian Justin Zimmerman detailing both the very first Regatta and the modern sport of crew.^[3]
• Harvard-Yale football games (The Game)
• List of Harvard-Yale football games

[edit] External links

• The Harvard-Yale Regatta - on Harvard Crew website
• Yale Crew

[edit] References

1. ^ USRowing (aspx). Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
2. ^ Harvard-yale reggata (html). Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
3. ^ "The Calling" official site "[1]"