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Cup (Which won its first heat)

which won its first heat from Leander.

The signal to start was given when Leander OLYMPIC REGATTA: FINAL OF THE SCULLING. victories in its earlier years, but in late years its successes have been few. Columbia, like Harvard, has suffered somewhat from vacillating coaching policies.

The University of Pennsylvania is the only prominent eastern boating university which has never attained an important place in American boating, because (with the exception of one or two years) it has persisted in teaching its crews the professional sculler's stroke. In the West, the Universities of Minnesota and of Wisconsin put out crews every year, and on the Pacific coast the University of California has made an attempt to do likewise. Besides the Oxford-Harvard race in 1869, American and English crews have met on the following occasions:— 1876. A Yale four met a four of the London Rowing Club on the Schuylkill River course, at the United States Centennial Regatta, Philadelphia, and was defeated. Subsequently in September of the same year First Trinity College of Cambridge University entered a four-oared collegiate regatta, but one of their men fainted, and they were unable to finish. a 1878.-Columbia sent a four-oared crew to Henley, which was fouled in a heat for the Stewards' Cup, but succeeded subsequently in winning the Visitors' Challenge