Rhubarb Issue 12: November 2023

CELEBRATING HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA O n Sunday 2nd July 2023 the Teddies boys’ 1st VIII won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta,

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the fifth crew to achieve this in the history of St Edward’s. In these pages we have asked the Captains and the Cox of the winning crews to write about their special day, remembering the build up to the race, the race itself and the celebrations that followed.

Teddies1st VIII on their way to winning the PE in 2023

Memories from the Winning Crews

1958 By MIKE PELHAM (Tilly’s, 1952-1958) CAPTAIN OF BOATS, SES

may just have taken off our jackets and ties. We also had built interval training into our training programme, which was an initiative started by the Germans who had just won at the Olympics. We were reasonably confident of our chances coming into Henley week as we’d won the Sandeman Trophy at Reading Regatta that

T here was always a hope at the beginning of the season that the St Edward’s 1st VIII could go one better than the previous year when we had got to the semi-final of the PE. John Vernon was now our coach and built on the excellent groundwork Maitland Emmett had overseen on the coaching front for so long. We didn’t have use of a gym, rather we started a training regime which included circuit training in the Quad at break times. I don’t remember us having the time to go back to our houses to change into PE kit, we

summer. We were billeted at a town house down the hill in Henley rented by the School and stayed there for the week before the Regatta and the Regatta week itself. We ate

all our meals at Phyllis Court.

Rowing VIII,1958

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