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3 unusual facts about Brasenose College Boat Club


Brasenose College Boat Club

Students would row to the inn at Sandford-on-Thames, a few miles south of Oxford, and race each other on the way back.

He once wagered he could walk the fifty-seven miles from Stones Chop House in London's Panton Street (near Leicester Square) to Brasenose in time for breakfast.

In a cause celebre, he introduced the coxless IV to this country, when he got his Brasenose cox, Frederic Weatherly (later a well-known lawyer and writer of the song "Danny Boy"), to jump overboard at the Henley start in 1868.



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