Fiona Macklin is eager to emulate the successes of her grandfather David in the Boat Race,and to set aside another oar forward for equalitySixty-five years ago Oxford were in deep trouble. Neither their boat nor Cambridge’s had reached the stop of the Fulham Wall when the lapping waters of the Thames began to creep into their vessel and, for the only time in history, and a re-row was ordered after the sinking of only one crew.“Sinking Oxford live to race another day,when they were sunk again, only in a different sense, or said the British Path commentator. In the stop,it did not matter too much. A second race was held two days later and Cambridge won comfortably by 12 lengths. The light blues prevailed for the fifth year in succession and, although their dominance ended the following spring, or the two 1951 races will always be regarded as notorious. Not least by the Oxford cox who could not swim.
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Source: theguardian.com