New College Boat Club

College Boat Clubs of the University of Oxford
New College Boat Club

Established
Head of the River – Men	1887, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1921, 1922, 1937, 1950, 1986
Head of the River – Women	2004, 2005
Location	Boathouse Island, River Thames (known in Oxford as the Isis) 51°44′34″N 1°14′57″W / 51.74290°N 1.24910°W / 51.74290; -1.24910
President	Eleanor Law
Men's Captain	Florian Mockel
Women's Captain	Stephanie Elstrop
Captain of Coxes	Adam Sriskandan
NCBC Website

New College Boat Club (NCBC) is rowing club for the members of New College, Oxford. It is one of the most successful college rowing clubs with 16 men's headships and two women's.^{[citation needed]}

Torpids and Eights

Torpids 2010

NCBC MI with broken bow blade and broken rudder on last day of Torpids 2008 resulting in a drop of six places

Men's 1st VIII
Started 6th in Div 1, 6th on the river

Wednesday: bumped by Balliol 1st VIII: -1
Thursday: bumped by St John's 1st VIII: -2
Friday: bumped by Hertford 1st VIII: -3
Saturday: bumped by Wadham 1st VIII, Worcester 1st VIII and Lady Margaret Hall 1st VIII: -6

Finished 12th in Div 1, 12th on the river

Men's 2nd VIII
Started 12th in Div 3, 36th on the river

Wednesday: Bumped St John's 2nd VIII: +1
Thursday: Rowed Over: +1
Friday: Bumped Magdalen 2nd VIII (GDBM): +2
Saturday: Rowed Over: +2

Finished 10th in Div 3, 34th on the river

Women's 1st VIII
Started 7th in Div 1, 7th on the river

Wednesday: Bumped by Osler House 1st VIII: -1
Thursday: Bumped Osler House 1st VIII, race klaxoned after 3 minutes: =0
Friday: Rowed Over: =0
Saturday: Bumped Queen's 1st VIII: +1

Finished 6th in Div 1, 6th on the river

Women's 2nd VIII
Started 5th in Div 3, 29th on the river

Wednesday: Half Division did not race
Thursday: Rowed Over: =0
Friday: Rowed Over: =0
Saturday: Bumped by Lincoln 1st VIII: -1

Finished 6th in Div 3, 30th on the river

Women's 3nd VIII
Started 10th in Div 5, 58th on the river after successfully Rowing On.
Wednesday: Division did not race
Thursday: Division did not race
Friday: Bumped St Edmund Hall 2nd VIII: +1
Saturday: Bumped Merton 2nd VIII: +2

Finished 8th in Div 5, 56th on the river

History

The Early Days of the Boat Club

The 1912 Stockholm Olympics and Magdalen Infamy

New College Boat Club, representing Great Britain, winning the Silver medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics

The New College Boat Club represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 and won the Silver medal in the Men's eights.

The two British crews were the favourites for gold so started at opposite ends of the draw. They both worked up through the competition to make the final. The course in Stockholm was not straight, and one of the two lanes was clearly favoured, the other requiring the cox to steer around a protruding boathouse and then back under a bridge.

Before the final, the two British captains met to toss for lanes. New College won the toss and following gentlemanly tradition offered the choice of lanes to their opponents, who would - in a gentlemanly fashion - refuse this offer. However the Leander/Magdalen captain accepted this offer and chose the better lane. Leander went on to win the gold medal, leaving New College with the silver.

King Gustav V of Sweden was so disheartened by this display of ungentlemanly conduct that, as a consolation, he presented his colours to New College. Ever since then, New College have raced in purple and gold, the colours of the royal house of Sweden. A further tradition has been the adoption of the toast: 'God Damn Bloody Magdalen!', the supposed words of the New College stroke Robert Bourne as they crossed the line. The abbreviation GDBM has been used commonly ever since, and is still on bottom of the NCBC letterhead.

Henley Royal Regatta

Grand Challenge Cup: 1st: 1897 2nd: 1889, 1895, 1904

Ladies Challenge Plate: 1st: 1900, 1950 2nd: 1908

Stewards Challenge Cup: 1st: 1912, 1913 2nd: 1894, 1897, 1898

Visitor Challenge Cup: 1st: 1894, 1898, 2nd: 1899, 1939, 1946, 1948

Facilities

NCBC has a boathouse on The Isis (part of the Thames) as well as using racks at Godstow for the Men's and Women's first boats.

External links

• New College Boat Club Website
• Oxford Bumps Charts