The 1st VIII, however, may wear the distinctive "Childe of Hale" colours — red, purple and gold — which are traditional in Brasenose rowing.

[3] The event is also notable for the fact that both crews rowed in eight oared boats, specially built for the purpose.

The races would start at Iffley Lock and finish at King's Barge, off Christ Church Meadow.

As there were no definite rules in those days, both the Jesus and Brasenose men competed over which college's flag should be hoisted to denote the Headship.

The Brasenose crew won the rematch, and the incident has been said to be shown in an 1822 picture, the earliest depiction of an eights race at Oxford, painted by I. T. Serres (Marine Painter to George IV).

[5] To this day, Brasenose and Jesus Men's 1st VIIIs compete in an annual race on the Isis for the 1815 Challenge Plate.

[citation needed] In 1846 Oxford University Boat Club gave up their barge and this was then used by Brasenose for many years.

He accompanied his landlord, Sir Gilbert Ireland, to the court of James I, where he took on the King's champion wrestler and won.

Sir Gilbert, later Lord of the Manor of Hale, was a member of Brasenose College at the time, and he brought Middleton to College on his return from court, where two life–size portraits were painted of him wearing his "London costume" - a fantastic outfit of red, purple and gold.

[2] In the first Henley Regatta of 1839, Brasenose competed in the only race, the Grand Challenge, against two other Oxford boats (the Etonian Club and Wadham) and First Trinity, Cambridge.

[7] It is suggested the Brasenose crew's prospects of winning the race were impaired by their having rowed their boat down from Oxford - a distance of 47 miles by river - the day before.

[9] BNCBC won the Visitors' at Henley in 1851 (the first "Royal" Regatta) rowing as "Childe of Hale Boat Club" in an attempt to hide their identities.

[citation needed] Wins at Henley Royal Regatta In a cause celebre, Walter Bradford Woodgate introduced the coxless four to the United Kingdom in 1868, 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 start of the Steward's Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.

While Weatherley narrowly escaped strangulation by the water lilies, Woodgate and his home-made steering device triumphed by 100 yards and were promptly disqualified.

“Nothing but defeating a railway in an action at law could have given him so much pleasure.”[17] Brasenose and "Childe of Hale Boat Club" went on to record legitimate victories in the event.

Brasenose holds the second most consecutive headships in Torpids (a 9-year unbeaten streak) behind Oriel College who went an astonishing 28 years undefeated.

Below are the names of Brasenose students past and present who have won "blues" or colours competing for OUBC and the other university boats.

[19] One of the most celebrated of Brasenose College oarsmen was the larger-than-life Walter Bradford Woodgate, who 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.

[20] The leading oarsman of his age, he won eleven Henley titles in the 1860s, including three in two days in 1862, when he narrowly missed a fourth victory after dead-heating the final of the Diamonds.

Famous past Brasenose oarsmen include C. W. Kent, reputed to be the greatest stroke in the world in the 1890s,[21] and John Conrad "Con" Cherry, a winning Boat Race stroke, and President of OUBC, who was President of Leander Club at the time of his death in World War II.

Among its various coaches, Brasenose College Boat Club enjoyed the services of Rudy Lehmann for five years from 1887 to 1891.

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