Oldest Collegiate competition today

[bulldog10jw]

If you can call it a competition since Harvard wins nearly every year

http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/sports/m-crewhvy/spec-rel/060606aab.html

[Ivytalk]

The ageless Harry Parker is a legend.

[ngineer]

But Lehigh and Lafayette have still met more often!:p

Great tradition. My daughter rowed crew at Bucknell and it was my first exposure to the sport. Great camraderie and a lot of respect for what the athletes go through. Those regattas in the fall were brutal in the cold weather. Having been to Cambridge, I can imagine the noise along the river. Good luck to Both!:thumbsup:

[bulldog10jw]

But Lehigh and Lafayette have still met more often!:p

Great tradition. My daughter rowed crew at Bucknell and it was my first exposure to the sport. Great camraderie and a lot of respect for what the athletes go through. Those regattas in the fall were brutal in the cold weather. Having been to Cambridge, I can imagine the noise along the river. Good luck to Both!:thumbsup:

Actually, the regatta is always held on the Thames River in New London, CT about 50 miles east of New Haven. I'm not sure how far it is from Cambridge, maybe 100 miles. Help me Ivytalk.

One of Yale's great old football players, Pudge Heffelfinger, was on the crew for a short while and said that football was a sissy sport compared to rowing. And this was in 1890 when people were still dying playing college football.

[ngineer]

Thanks for the education. Is that considered a 'neutral' site? Seems like the Eli would have home 'river' advantage--if there can be such a thing..

[Ivytalk]

Harvard varsity and JV won. Yale frosh prevailed.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Temple's done pretty good in the Dad Vail Regatta. It might not be the oldest but it's the largest collegiate regatta in the country.