Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)

Coordinates: 51°44′37″N 1°15′00″W / 51.743503°N 1.249915°W / 51.743503; -1.249915
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Jesus College Boat Club
                       
The blade of an oar, coloured green
The club's blade colours
Coordinates51°44′37″N 1°15′00″W / 51.743503°N 1.249915°W / 51.743503; -1.249915
Home waterRiver Thames (known in Oxford as the Isis)
Foundedc. 1815 (unofficially), 1835 (formally)
Key people
  • Martha Heggs (President)
  • Ruedi Baumann (Senior Member)[1]
Head of the RiverNever won
TorpidsWomen: 1980–83
UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Colours 
AffiliationsBritish Rowing (boat code JEO)
Jesus College Boat Club (Cambridge) (Sister college)
Websitejcbc.jesus.ox.ac.uk

Jesus College Boat Club is a rowing club for members of Jesus College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. The club was formed in 1835, but rowing at the college predates the club's foundation: a boat from the college was involved in the earliest recorded races between college crews at Oxford in 1815, when it competed against Brasenose College. In the early years of rowing at Oxford, Jesus was one of the few colleges that participated in races. Neither the men's nor the women's 1st VIIIs have earned the title of "Head of the River", which is gained by winning Eights Week—the main inter-college rowing competition at Oxford.

A number of college members have rowed for the university against

Amateur Rowing Association and coached both the Oxford and Cambridge
University boat clubs.

The college

Richmond
, and for some years was painted in the college colours of green and white.

History

A man wearing a green and white neckerchief and a straw boater, under a green and white flag
An 1840s depiction of the college's rowing outfit

The early records of the club have been lost, but there are references to a Jesus College boat in material that survives from the early 19th century.

Tam o'shanters in college colours (green with a white band for Jesus); crews from Jesus College wore these until at least 1847.[8]

George IV).[6][9] However, the print was published on 1 March 1822 and it would have taken several months to prepare and engrave. It also shows a summer scene. Both of these points suggest that the print depicts either an imaginary scene or an unrecorded event from 1821.[10]

A "
bump" during Torpids 1999: Jesus Men's 1st VIII catch Hertford
.

Races gradually became more formalised, and regulations were introduced prohibiting colleges from using professional rowers or members of other colleges. A race for the colleges' second boats (

Henley Regatta, but lost to Eton, the eventual winners.[13]

Nine smiling young women, eight in green one-piece tight lycra outfits and the shortest in jumper and trousers, stand in a line in front of two crossed oars
The women's 1st VIII, 1993

By 1930, the college 1st VIII had reached its highest position on the river for thirty years.[15] In 1947, the college chaplain Leslie Cross presented a new set of oars to the club. He retired that year, and the college magazine, noting that Cross had been a particularly generous supporter of the club, stated that the oars had already been used to good purpose.[16] The 1st VIII progressed further in the 1950s, making five bumps in 1951 and four in 1952 to reach the first division, with a high point of seventh in 1957. It later returned to the second division, before re-entering the first division in 1970.[17] Its highest position in recent years was seventh in the first division in 2000;[18] it has been back in the second division since 2004, and finished eighth in the second division in 2011.[19]

Women were first admitted to Jesus College in 1974; the college was one of the first five men's colleges to do so.[20] The women's 1st VIII was Head of the River in Torpids between 1980 and 1983.[21][22][23][24] In 1993, the women's 1st VIII won their "blades" in the first divisions of both Torpids and Eights Week, an achievement that led to the crew being described in the Jesus College Record as vying "not just for the College team of the decade, but perhaps for the team of the last three decades", in any sport.[25] The same crew also won the Novices' Trophy at the Wallingford Regatta in the same year.[25] The women's 1st VIII has not maintained its position since then. After some years in the third division, it ended the 2011 Eights Week in twelfth place in the second division, winning blades in the process.[19][26]

Club structure and finance

Isis. The right-hand half of the building is used by Keble College
.

All members of the college who have coxed or rowed in a JCBC boat are Ordinary Members of the Boat Club, a status that they retain until one month after leaving the college.

Fellow and Tutor in Law at the college.[1][31]

The college uses a proportion of student fees to fund social and sporting activity. The allocation for sport, including rowing, is overseen by the Committee of Amalgamated Clubs, which has representatives from the

Junior and Middle Common Rooms (for undergraduates and postgraduates) as well as from the college's sport clubs.[32]

registered charity since December 1982 and supports rowing at the college both with capital expenditure and training costs. In the year ending 5 April 2022, the trust's expenditure was £1,300.[34][35] Members of the Cadwallader Club have helped to provide new boats and blades for the men's and the women's 1st VIIIs, and on the Saturday of Eights Week 2008, the trust presented the boat club with a new coxed four, named Cadwallader.[33][36] Cadwallader Club members are also non-voting members of the boat club.[37]

Rowers

Two barges by the side of a river, one not fully in shot, in front of trees. The main barge has two large flags flying from the cabin roof, four large openings and one small one on the cabin's river side, and a window on the side of the cabin perpendicular to the river alongside a staircase to the roof; there are railings around the top of the roof. The other barge has five visible windows and roof railings.
Jesus College shared this barge with three other colleges during the 19th century.

D. W. Griffith, the

Cambridge: Anna Bean and Ann Bevitt (1989);[47] Louise Sanford (1997);[48] Claire Weaver (1998);[47]
and Sarah Marshall (2023).

Some prominent individuals rowed while they were students at the college. The historian

bow in a college four.[56]

College barges

Richmond-upon-Thames
.

Colleges began to keep

Richmond-upon-Thames, where it is moored alongside Richmond Bridge and used as a restaurant.[59] The barge was decorated for some years in the college colours of green and white, with a Welsh red dragon on the prow; by 2009, however, it had been repainted with blue instead of green.[62]

See also

  • University rowing (UK)

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Oxford University Rowing Clubs: Jesus". Oxford University Rowing Clubs (OURCs). 2008. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  2. ^ The club's records were lost by the time that Sherwood wrote his book in 1900: Sherwood, p. x (Introduction)
  3. ^ Sherwood pp. 1–2, 8
  4. ^ a b Sherwood, p. 8
  5. ^ a b Hardy, p. 229
  6. ^ a b c Sharp, p. 25
  7. ^ a b Sharp, p. 26
  8. ^ Sherwood, p. 87
  9. ^ a b Sherwood, p. 10
  10. ^ Sharp, pp. 28–29
  11. ^ Sherwood, p. 44
  12. ^ "Jesus College Boat Club". Jesus College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 14 February 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  13. ^ a b Hardy, p. 230
  14. ^ a b Baker, p. 87
  15. ^ Baker, p. 130
  16. ^ Baker, p. 138
  17. ^ a b Baker, p.145
  18. ^ "Sports Report 1999/2000". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford. 2000. During Eights Week, the men's 1st VIII climbed one more place, to seventh, in the 1st Division, their best position in well over 20 years
  19. ^ a b "Eights 2011 – Finishing Order – Saturday" (PDF). OURCs. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  20. ^ "The Modern Day". Jesus College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  21. ^ "Oriel remain unruffled at the top". The Times. 3 March 1980. p. 10.
  22. ^ "Oriel wear crown for ninth year in a row". The Times. 2 March 1981. p. 9.
  23. ^ "Oriel keep headship in Torpids". The Times. 1 March 1982. p. 17.
  24. ^ "Twelve in a row for Oriel". The Times. 28 February 1983. p. 20.
  25. ^ a b c De'Ath, John (1993–1994). "Sports Report 1992–93". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 70.
  26. ^ "JCBC – Summer Eights 2011". Jesus College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  27. ^ Constitution, Part A Paragraph 2(a)
  28. ^ Constitution, Part B Paragraph 5
  29. ^ Constitution, Schedule 1 Paragraph 3
  30. ^ "Chapter 4: Rules For Bumping Races – B1. Dates". Oxford University Rowing Clubs. 7 April 2009. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
  31. ^ "Mr Peter Mirfield". Jesus College, Oxford. 19 September 2005. Archived from the original on 28 March 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
  32. ^ "Information and regulations for undergraduate members of the college 2022–23" (PDF). Jesus College, Oxford. 2022. p. 88. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  33. ^ a b c "Cadwallader Club". Jesus College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  34. Charity Commission
    . 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  35. ^ "Governance: 285880 – The Cadwallader Trust". Charity Commission. 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  36. ^ "Cadwallader present new coxed four". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 76. 2008.
  37. ^ Constitution, Part A Paragraph 2(b)
  38. ^ Sherwood, pp. 20–21
  39. ^ Sherwood, pp. 361–369
  40. ^ Sherwood, p. 349
  41. ^ Sherwood, pp. 287–302
  42. ^ De'Ath, John (1995–1996). "Sports Report 1994–95". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 75.
  43. ^ Bennett, Ivor; Pearce, Claire (2006). "Sports Report 2005–2006". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 91.
  44. ^ "The Boat Race". Jesus College, Oxford. 22 March 2008. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  45. ^ Beer, Peter. "Sports Report 2002–3". The Jesus College Record: 84.
  46. ^ "The Boat Race". Jesus College, Oxford. 7 March 2009. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
  47. ^ a b Beer, Peter (1999). "Sports Report 1998–99". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 105.
  48. ^ Beer, Peter (1997–1998). "Sports Report 1996–97". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 70.
  49. ^ Baker, p. 108
  50. ^ "Mr. James H. Page". The Times. 17 December 1977. p. 14.
  51. ^ a b Baker, p. 84
  52. ^ Townley, Peter (22 July 1999). "Obituary: The Right Rev Gordon Roe". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  53. ^ "Boat Club". The Jesus College Magazine. Vol. IV, no. LXI. Jesus College, Oxford. June 1939. p. 617.
  54. ^ Baker, p. 106
  55. ^ Baker, p. 116
  56. ^ Muttukumaru, Anton (1992–1993). "Some Recollections of Oxford by Major-General Anton Muttukumaru (1928–1931)". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 33.
  57. ^ Sherwood, p. 92
  58. ^ Sherwood, p. 93
  59. ^ a b De'Ath, John (2001). "The College Barge". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 52–53.
  60. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  61. ^ Eyre, C. V. (1994–1995). "The College Barge: Recollections". The Jesus College Record. Jesus College, Oxford: 61.
  62. ^ The repainted barge can be seen in this photograph of Richmond Bridge, taken in April 2009.

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