The Boat Race 1970

Held annually, it is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames.

[15] Czechoslovakian international rower Bob Janoušek assessed both crews as "extremely fit" but "far from expert in rowing".

Oxford's stroke Lonsdale increased their rating in an attempt to stay with Cambridge around the long Surrey bend and temporarily succeeded.

Still a length up at Harrods Furniture Depository, the Cambridge cox steered wide and Oxford began to close the gap.

[21] Calvert steered the Dark Blue boat inside the Cambridge line and "made for the Surrey shore" in a manoeuvre which Donald Legget,[22] writing in The Observer described as "the most extraordinary sight I have ever witnessed while rowing or coaching".

[17] In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie beat Oxford's Isis by fourteen lengths, a record distance, in their fourth consecutive victory.

I decided to try to panic Cambridge by close contact steering, breaking their rhythm and attacking when the stations levelled out beyond Chiswick Steps.

"[21] John Rodda of The Guardian described Calvert's steering as "zig-zag" and while acknowledging the "bold imagination" involved, claimed the cox's manoeuvres were "futile".