Headships At Torpids and Summer Eights
Brasenose holds the record for most consecutive headships in Torpids.
In the Summer Eights Brasenose held headship in the following years: 1815, 1816, 1822, 1827, 1839, 1840, 1845, 1846, 1852-54, 1865-67, 1876, 1888-91, 1928-31.
The Childe of Hale (M1) made a strong bid to regain the headship in the 1990s, bumping as high as second on the river in Torpids and fourth on the river in Summer Eights.
Read more about this topic: Brasenose College Boat Club (Oxford)
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