Volume 53 With many of last year’s experienced oarsmen and in encouraging entry from the freshman to draw from, prospects for the boat club must have been brighter in October of 1950 than for many years. Yet successes rarely come to the club that draws up its lists of crews and naively hopes for the […]
Archives: History
The history of Caius Boat Club, chronicled in great detail from the founding in 1827 to present day
History 1945-1950
The last year was a consistently disappointing one as far as the First Boat was concerned – the performance of the lower boats, however, was most promising, particularly the Second Boat in the Mays, when the crew narrowly missed their oars. The present year has started under the most favourable conditions, for a member of […]
History 1940-1945
Volume 51, year unknown (1945?) In the Michaelmas term the Club had 30 members, made up of ten from the previous year, two ex-service members, and eighteen freshmen, so that it should have been possible to put out three eights. Owing to the large numbers of afternoon practical classes and shortening winter afternoons, it was […]
History 1935-1940
May races of 1936 With an amount of good material the boat promised well for the races, and for the first month of so we were very optimistic. Then things began to go wrong, our coach letting us down two days before he was due to arrive. A fortnight before the race the crew rowed […]
History 1930-1935
Boat club, 1930-31 Our victory in the Clinker Fours last term was a good beginning to what looks like being a very successful year on the river. Concerning that event I can do no better than quote N.C. Pearson’s entry in the boat club book “Today we beat St. Catharine’s in the final, thereby winning […]
History 1927-1930
Lent races 1927 It was unfortunate that the Lents in the Centenary year of the club should have been so marred by illness, but so grave were the ravages of boils, poisoned hands, and ‘flu that on many days only three out of the five boats were able to go out. We managed, however, to […]
Venn’s History 1827 to 1927
“Biographical history of Gonville and Caius college, 1349-1897; containing a list of all known members of the college from the foundation to the present time, with biographical notes” Full text available at the Internet Archive