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CUWBC in the 1960s

The early '60s were hard years for CUWBC and in 1963 there was also a very hard winter and the Cam froze over, so much so that there was skating on it, and so the women had very few opportunites to row races, although they did manage one against Bedford Ladies in November 1963. Their wonderfully supportive coach, Canon...


Read more at: CUWBC in the 1950s

CUWBC in the 1950s

In the later 1950s it was difficult for the women who rowed for Cambridge University against Oxford because, just before the Varsity race in 1955 the Oxford women's crew went over a weir in their boat and were banned from the Isis, so they could not row against Cambridge that year. As CUWBC was only informed of this on the...