Exeter College Boat Club
{{Short description|British rowing club}}
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{{Infobox rowing club
| name = Exeter College Boat Club
| emblem = {{scarf|{{cells|8|Red}}{{cells|1|Black}}{{cells|5|White}}{{cells|1|Black}}{{cells|8|Red}}{{cells|1|Black}}{{cells|5|White}}{{cells|1|Black}}{{cells|8|Red}}}}
| image = 300px
| blade_image = File:Lady Margaret Rowing Blade.svg
| caption = Exeter College Boathouse (left half) and blade colours
| location =
| coordinates = {{coord|51.7435|-1.2499|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| home_water = The Isis
| founded = 1823 (formally)
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Maisie Gilbert (President)
)|William Bidwell (Men's Captain)|Georgia Stonadge (Women's Captain)|Kate Harrison (Captain of Coxes)|}} | champs_label = Head of the River | champs = {{ubl | Men: 1824, 1838, 1857, 1858, 1882-84 }} | colours = {{color box|Red}} {{color box|black}} {{color box|white}} | university = University of Oxford | affiliations = British Rowing (boat code EXC) | website = {{URL||https://ecbc.web.ox.ac.uk/}} |acronym=ECBC}} Exeter College Boat Club (ECBC) is the boat club of Exeter College, Oxford, England. The club trains on the Thames on the Isis stretch in Oxford and at Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The Boat Club competes primarily in Torpids and Summer Eights bumps races in Oxford. However, it also races at various external events, such as Wallingford Regatta.{{cite web |title=Exeter College Boat Club |url=http://www.exetercollegebc.org.uk |access-date=13 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521170551/http://www.exetercollegebc.org.uk/ |archive-date=21 May 2014 |url-status=dead }} The college has a boathouse on Christ Church Meadow which it shares with Brasenose College Boat Club.{{cite web|title=Oxford University Rowing Clubs: Exeter|url=http://www.ourcs.org.uk/clubs/exet|publisher=Oxford University Rowing Clubs (OURCs)|access-date=13 March 2013|archive-date=15 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215063532/http://www.ourcs.org.uk/clubs/exet|url-status=dead}}
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Sister college)
History
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There is no record of Exeter College putting a crew on the river before 1823. The Exeter College Boat Club would appear to have been founded in 1823 or 1824 under the impetus of Henry Bulteel. Bulteel had been an undergraduate at Brasenose College, and stroked Brasenose to the headship in 1821 and 1822. Bulteel became a Fellow of Exeter College in 1823, and the Boat Club seemes to have been formed at that time.{{cite web | url=http://www.bncbc.co.uk/history-1/brasenose-and-the-origins-of-oxford-rowing/ | title=Brasenose College and the Origins of Oxford rowing | access-date=6 February 2015 | author=O'Chee, W.G. | archive-date=6 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206010303/http://www.bncbc.co.uk/history-1/brasenose-and-the-origins-of-oxford-rowing/ | url-status=dead }}
Exeter College Boat Club first took part in Summer Eights in 1824, with Bulteel stroking. That year they rowed in the famous "White Boat", which had been built in the Plymouth dockyard, and brought to Oxford by Brasenose College boatman, Stephen Davis. Being a coastal boat, it was found to sit too high out of the water to be rowed effectively on the Isis. The boat was therefore cut down to reduce the height of the gunwales, and it was in this boat that the College won its first headship in 1824.
From 1827-30 there was no Exeter eight on the river.Stride, p.228 The colours of the club, adopted around 1837 were red and black, the colours of the college arms. It was presumably these colours which were used for racing kerchiefs, recorded in the Exeter College Boat Club Treasurer's Book as being purchased in 1844. These were to be "kept peculiar to the racing crew" as opposed to other members of the College Boat Club.{{cite book| author=Sherwood, W.E. | title=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times | url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft | year=1900 | publisher=Henry Frowde | page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft/page/19 19]}}
In 1856 Exeter used the first keel-less boat on the river and in this they went head from 1857 until 1859. From twelfth place in 1879 they rose to fourth in 1881 and to Head in 1882. They kept the headship from 1882 to 1884 inclusive.Stride, p.233-235
In 1882 Exeter won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.Stride, p.235
Uniform
File:Oxford college jerseys 2 of 6.jpg
Exeter is associated with the colour red, which features prominently on its crest. The colour is used in racing kits, blazers, ties and blades.
The first known use of a tie in club colours was by members of Exeter College eight. In 1880, they took the ribbons off their boaters and tied them around their necks as a way to identify with their college.{{cite web | title=History of ties | url=https://www.patrickmcmurray.com/news-003.html | publisher=Patrick McMurray | access-date=6 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512002856/http://www.patrickmcmurray.com/news-003.html | archive-date=12 May 2013 | url-status=dead }}
Members who have raced in the first crews in Torpids are granted the right to wear this tie. Members who have raced in the first boats in Summer Eights are permitted to wear the club blazer. The blazer is peony red, with black trim. Captains are entitled to an extra stripe on the sleeve.
Results
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=Torpids=
Headship
- Men: 1846-47, 1854-57, 1859-60, 1863-65, 1867-68{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft#page/154/mode/2up|title=Oxford rowing; a history of boat-racing at Oxford from the earliest times, with a record of the races; compiled principally from official sources|website=archive.org|access-date=2016-12-12}}
=Summer Eights=
Headship
- Men:1824, 1838, 1857-58, 1882-84
= Henley Royal Regatta =
| class="wikitable"
!Event !Year |
| Grand Challenge Cup
|1882 |
| Ladies Challenge Plate
|1857 |
| Silver Goblets
|1851 |
References
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- {{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/exetercollege00stririch | title=Exeter College | publisher=F. E. Ribinson & Co. | year=1900 | access-date=2013-04-16 | author=Stride, William John Francis Keatley}}
- {{cite book|last=Sherwood|first=W. E.|year=1900|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft|title=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times|location=Oxford and London|publisher=Henry Frowde|ref={{harvid|Sherwood}}}}
External links
- [http://www.exetercollegebc.co.uk Exeter College Boat Club Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129034114/http://exetercollegebc.co.uk/ |date=29 January 2016 }}
- [http://www.ourcs.org.uk/clubs/exet Exeter College Boat Club on the OURCs site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326001934/http://www.ourcs.org.uk/clubs/exet |date=26 March 2009 }}
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