When rowing on the Thames, both the Blue Boat and Goldie boat from King's College School's Boat House.
He also coached Cambridge University to repeated successes in the Boat Race.
Cambridge University There were two races in 1849, and Coombes coached Cambridge on both occasions: Cambridge won the first but lost the second.
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