[Illustration: A COLLEGE PAIR.] In 1837 the head college crews of the two Universities rowed a match at Henley. The Brasenose book says, Christ Church were head, but took off because their Dean objected to their rowing at Henley; the effect of their 'taking off' was to leave Queen's College, on whom the representation of the college crews would devolve, with the titular headship. The B.N.C. book says, the Queen's crew went, 'as was usual,' to row the head boat of Cambridge, and beat them easily. The latter statement is correct. Mr. Brickwood in his treatise demurs to the accuracy of the B.N.C. allegation that such matches were 'usual,' and research qualifies his scepticism. The B.N.C. hon. sec. of that day seems to have been drawing somewhat upon his imagination. He had probably heard of these various Leander and other matches at Henley in other years; hence his inference. 1837. _Henley. College match._ QUEEN'S. | LADY MARGARET (St. John's). 1. Lee, Stanlake. | 1. Shadwell, Alfred H. 2. Glazbrook, Robert. | 2. Colquhoun, Patrick. 3. Welsh, Jos. | 3. Wood, H. O. 4. Robinson, John. | 4. Antrobus, Edmund. 5. Meyrick, Jos. | 5. Budd, R. H. 6. Todd, Jos. | 6. Fane, W. D. 7. Eversley, John. | 7. Fletcher, Ralph. Penny, Chas. J. (stroke). | Hurt, Robert (stroke). Berkeley, Geo. T. (cox.). | Jackson, Curtis (cox.). The names of the Queen's and St. John's crews are here given, instead of recording them in the lists of University oars, for this was not strictly a University race, though in those days it had almost as much prestige as one. In 1839 the third University match was rowed, and Henley Regatta was founded. At the Universities, about this date, various prizes were established, all of which gave a stimulus to oarsmanship. Pair-oar races were established at Oxford in 1839. They were rowed with coxswains until 1847. At Cambridge similar pairs were founded in 1844, and were rowed from the first without coxswains. The obsolete rudder of the Oxford pairs is now held by the coxswain of the head eight. The Colquhoun Sculls had been founded at Cambridge in 1837. 'University Sculls' were instituted at Oxford in 1841. Four-oar races, each crew to be from one college, were founded at Oxford in 1840, and at Cambridge in 1849. Thus, by the latter year, each U.B.C. had its set of contests for all classes of craft--eights, fours, pairs, and sculls. Lists of the winners of these various honours from year to year will be found elsewhere in this volume. [Illustration: TOWING GUARD BOATS UP HENLEY REACH.]