Exeter College Boat Club

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.

Exeter College Boat Club
Exeter College Boathouse (left half) and blade colours
Coordinates51.7435°N 1.2499°W / 51.7435; -1.2499
Home waterThe Isis
Founded1823 (formally)
Key people
  • Tabitha Thornton-Swan (President)[1]
  • Dexnell Peters (Senior Member)[1]
  • Shreyus Ganesh (Men's Captain)[1]
  • Anna Gilchrist (Women's Captain)[1]
Head of the River
  • Men: 1824, 1838, 1857, 1858, 1882-84
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Colours     
AffiliationsBritish Rowing (boat code EXC)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Sister college)
Websitehttps://ecbc.web.ox.ac.uk/

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.[2]

The college has a boathouse on Christ Church Meadow which it shares with Brasenose College Boat Club.[1]

History

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.[3]

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 gunnels, and it was in this boat that the College won its first headship in 1824.[3]

From 1827-30 there was no Exeter eight on the river.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

In 1882 Exeter won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.[7]

Uniform

Exeter College Boat Club depicted in Vanity Fair in the 1840s

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.[8] 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, which has been in use since the mid-nineteenth century. The blazer is peony red, with black trim. Captains are entitled to an extra stripe on the sleeve.

For much of its history, members of Exeter wore distinctive black boaters with red ribbons. The tradition fell out of fashion at some point in the 1960s.

Results

Torpids

Headship

  • Men: 1846-47, 1854-57, 1859-60, 1863-65, 1867-68[9]

Summer Eights

Headship

  • Men:1824, 1838, 1857-58, 1882-84

Henley Royal Regatta

Event Year
Grand Challenge Cup 1882
Ladies Challenge Plate 1857
Silver Goblets 1851

The Boat Race

The Boat Race, 2011

Exeter College has been represented by members at the following Boat Races:

Year Member Result
1836 Ferdinand Thomas Stephens Cambridge
1839 Woodforde Ffooks (Cox) Cambridge
1841 Richard Bethell, Charles B. Woolaston (Cox) Cambridge
1845 F.J. Richards (Cox) Cambridge
1849 James Wodehouse, J. Aitken Oxford
1854 W. Pinckney, G.L. Mellish, T.H. Marshall (Cox) Oxford
1856 W.F. Stocken, R.I. Salmon Cambridge
1857 R.W. Risley Oxford
1858 R.W. Risley Cambridge
1859 R.W. Risley Oxford
1860 R.W. Risley Cambridge
1861 E.B. Merriman, W.M. Hoare Oxford
1862 W.M. Hoare Oxford
1863 W.M. Hoare Oxford
1866 F. Willan Oxford
1867 F. Willan Oxford
1868 R.S. Ross of Bladensburg, F. Willan Oxford
1869 F. Willan Oxford
1876 W.H. Hobart Cambridge
1879 W.H. Hobart Cambridge
1880 R.S. Kindersley Oxford
1881 R.A. Pinckney, R.S. Kindersley (President) Oxford
1882 R.S. Kindersley Oxford
1884 L. Stock, W.C. Blandy, W.D.B. Curry Cambridge
1886 W.E. Maynard (Cox) Cambridge
1887 L.J. Clarke (Cox) Cambridge
1914 J.B. Kindersley Cambridge
1928 G.M. Brander Cambridge
1983 S.E. Higgins (Cox) Oxford
2010 B. Myers Cambridge
2011 B. Myers (President) Oxford

Reserves

Year Member Result
1987 C. Chinn Goldie
1994 C.T. Heise Goldie
2001 E. Boldon Goldie
2005 J.R. Sattelmair Goldie
2011 B. Snodin Isis
2015 M. Gerlak Isis

The Women's Boat Race

Women's Boat Race, 2015

Exeter College has been represented by members at the following Boat Races:

Year Member Result
2014 Lauren Kedar Oxford
2015 Lauren Kedar Oxford
2016 Lauren Kedar Oxford

Reserves

Year Member Result
2011 Rhian Wood Blondie

References

  1. "Oxford University Rowing Clubs: Exeter". Oxford University Rowing Clubs (OURCs). Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  2. "Exeter College Boat Club". Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  3. O'Chee, W.G. "Brasenose College and the Origins of Oxford rowing". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. Stride, p.228
  5. Sherwood, W.E. (1900). Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times. Henry Frowde. p. 19.
  6. Stride, p.233-235
  7. Stride, p.235
  8. "History of ties". Patrick McMurray. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  9. "Oxford rowing; a history of boat-racing at Oxford from the earliest times, with a record of the races; compiled principally from official sources". archive.org. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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