Brasenose At The Henley Royal Regatta
The first ever Henley Royal Regatta attracted four entries and it is recorded that:
- The Etonian Club were dressed in white guernseys with pale blue facings, rosette sky blue. Brasenose had blue striped guernseys, blue cap with gold tassel, rosette yellow, purple and crimson. Wadham wore white guernseys with narrow blue stripes, dark blue cap with light blue velvet band, and light blue scarf, and Trinity College were attired in blue striped guernseys, rosette French Blue.
Brasenose has won a number of championships at the Henley Royal Regatta, including the Diamond Challenge Sculls; the Stewards' Challenge Cup (in which Brasenose College Boat Club invented the coxless four; see details below); the Ladies' Challenge Plate; the Silver Goblets and Nickalls' Challenge Cup; and the Thames Challenge Cup; in addition to winning the Grand Challenge Cup in composites with Leander Club several times in a row in the 1890s.
More recently, Brasenose College Boat Club gave 1994 Temple Challenge Cup winners Imperial College their closest race of the regatta.
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