Peterhouse Boat Club
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The blade colours of Peterhouse Boat Club |
Peterhouse Boat Club is the
rowing club for members of
Peterhouse. Alumni of Peterhouse Boat Club are eligible to join the
Cross Keys Boat Club.
Peterhouse is the smallest of all of the colleges of
Cambridge University which regularly admit both undergraduates and graduates, yet crews from Peterhouse have often performed very well. In the early days of the
Lent and
May Bumps, the Peterhouse 1st men's VIII were in the lower half of the 2nd, or even in the 3rd division, but from about 1920 rose to lie in the bottom-half of the 1st division or top-half of the 2nd division. Peterhouse performed very well in the
Lent Bumps from 1950, not being bumped until 1957, and taking the headship in 1956. Since then, the Peterhouse 1st men's VIII have spent most of their time in the top-half of the 2nd division or bottom-half of the 1st division in both events. A women's crew didn't appear until 1986 and has remained in the 2nd division for most of the time since then in both the
Lent and
May Bumps, although the 1st women's VIII did succeed in breaking into the 1st division in the
May Bumps in 2002 for the first time. Peterhouse 1st Women managed the only
quadruple-overbump ever in the history of bumps racing in the
May Bumps in 1986 when they managed to catch
Clare III to rise 9 positions in a single day.
Famous alumni of the Peterhouse Boat Club include James Mason, Lord Kelvin and Tom Askwith.
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