The Boat Race 1908

In a race umpired by Frederick I. Pitman, Cambridge won by 2+1⁄2 lengths in a time of 19 minutes 20 seconds.

[6] Cambridge's coaches were L. H. K. Bushe-Fox, Francis Escombe (for the fifth consecutive year), Stanley Muttlebury, five-time Blue between 1886 and 1890, and David Alexander Wauchope (who had rowed in the 1895 race).

[13] Former Oxford rower and author George Drinkwater assessed the Cambridge crew as "better and stronger than in the previous year".

[14] Conversely, "misfortune dogged the [Oxford] crew": firstly their number five of 1907, James Angus Gillan was available but forbidden to row by his doctors.

[15] Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station, handing the Middlesex side of the river to Cambridge.

Rough water favoured Cambridge's style of rowing, and they were clear of Oxford by the time they passed the Mile Post.