Cambridge Scores 51st Boat Race Win In Exciting Finish
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Rec. 9 p.m. , LONDON, Mar. 26. In the most thrilling boat race between the two universities, Cambridge scored its fifty-first win over Oxford to-day by a quarter of a length. The time for the four and a-half mile course was 18 minutes 57 seconds. Oxford has won the race on 43 occasions.
Cambridge trailed a length behind for the first three miles of the course. Oxford hung grimly to the lead until the last quarter of a mile, when Cambridge drew level. The crews raced neck and neck until the final paralysing burst by Cambridge downed the tiring Oxford crew. Oxford maintained a steady 30 stroking through most of the race. Two hundred yards from the finish, when it seemed Oxford’s race, Cambridge
whipped up the rate to 35 and unwound a burst which the distressed Oxford crew could not answer. The time for the race was 67 seconds slower than last year’s Cambridge record of 17min 50sec. This year's race was the closest on record apart from the dead heat in 1877. The BBC made elaborate arrangements to televise the race, and television watchers had an excellent view throughout.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27041, 28 March 1949, Page 5
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