University Barge Club

University Barge Club
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Location#7 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Home waterSchuylkill River
Established1851
Navy admission1854 (founding member)
Key people
  • Bart Isdaner (president)
  • Alex Cook (captain)
  • Deirdre Mullen (Navy delegate)
  • Jennifer Wesson (HOSR director)
Membership250 active members[1]
ColorsRoyal Blue   and White  
AffiliationsChestnut Hill Academy, Springside School, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Rowing, and Head of the Schuylkill
Websitehttp://www.universitybarge.com

University Barge Club of Philadelphia (also known as UBC)[2] is an amateur rowing club located at #7 in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark.[3] The club's founding, in 1854, is considered the "dawn of organized athletics in the University of Pennsylvania."[4] Known as "the upper-class rowing club," UBC is a founder, and the most senior member, of the oldest amateur athletic governing body in the United States, the Schuylkill Navy.[5]

  1. ^ "University Barge Club". University Barge Club. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  2. ^ Thayer, John B. (June 1904). "The Early Years of the University Barge Club of Philadelphia". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 29. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. pp. 287–88.
  3. ^ "Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State" (PDF). National Historic Landmarks Survey, National Park Service. p. 81. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2009. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  4. ^ Thayer, John B. (June 1904). "The Early Years of the University Barge Club of Philadelphia". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 29. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. p. 284.
  5. ^ Baltzell, E. Digby (2001). "Upper-Class Clubs and Associations in Philadelphia". The Protestant Establishment Revisited. Transaction Publishers. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-7658-0664-2.