Brasenose College Boat Club

Brasenose College Boat Club
         
Boathouse
Brasenose boathouse (right) and rowing blade colours
Home waterRiver Thames (known in Oxford as the Isis)
Foundedterminus ante quem 1815
Key people
  • Matt Campbell (President)
  • James Perks and Ollie Burgess (Vice President)
  • Luke Hayward (Treasurer)
  • Konstantin Ardakov (Senior Member)
Head of the River
  • Men: 1815, 1816, 1821, 1822, 1827, 1839, 1840, 1845, 1846, 1852-54, 1865-67, 1876, 1888-91, 1928-31
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Colours   
AffiliationsBritish Rowing (boat code BRC)
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Sister college)
Websitewww.bncbc.co.uk

Brasenose College Boat Club (BNCBC) is the rowing club of Brasenose College, Oxford, in Oxford, England. It is one of the oldest boat clubs in the world, having beaten Jesus College Boat Club in the first modern rowing race, held at Oxford in 1815. Although rowing at schools such as Eton College and Westminster School predates this,[1] the 1815 contest is the first recorded race between rowing clubs anywhere in the world.

In addition to the 1815 "headship", the club has won both the Summer Eights and Torpids headship many times, and has recorded numerous victories in most events at the Henley Royal Regatta.

The club's colours are black and gold, with black blades. The 1st VIII, however, may wear the distinctive "Childe of Hale" colours — red, purple and gold — which are traditional in Brasenose rowing.[2]

  1. ^ "Westminster School Boat Club History". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
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