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CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD BOAT RACE SILVER MEDAL 1877
The medal inscribed Cambridge And Oxford Boat Race 1877 Dead Heat, in a laurel border, on the reverse inscribed Universitas Cantabrigiensis around the Cambridge coat-of-arms, enclosed in glass in a circular silver frame (some oxidisation).
This medal commemorates one of the strangest episodes in the race's history. Few belived that it really had been a dead heat, many were convinced that Oxford had won. There were slurs upon the integrity of the finishing judge 'Honest' John Phelps, not surprisingly, as he tried to record his verdict without the aid of a finnishing post or any kind of marker, and despite the fact that he was well over 70 and 'a bit blind'. Needless to say he was not asked to judge again.
The medal inscribed Cambridge And Oxford Boat Race 1877 Dead Heat, in a laurel border, on the reverse inscribed Universitas Cantabrigiensis around the Cambridge coat-of-arms, enclosed in glass in a circular silver frame (some oxidisation).
This medal commemorates one of the strangest episodes in the race's history. Few belived that it really had been a dead heat, many were convinced that Oxford had won. There were slurs upon the integrity of the finishing judge 'Honest' John Phelps, not surprisingly, as he tried to record his verdict without the aid of a finnishing post or any kind of marker, and despite the fact that he was well over 70 and 'a bit blind'. Needless to say he was not asked to judge again.