On Sunday, June 7, Yale’s heavyweight crew team defeated Harvard in their 150th regatta, the nation’s oldest collegiate sporting event.
Yale finished 17 seconds ahead Sunday in the annual four-mile race along Connecticut’s Thames River. The Bulldogs’ time was 18 minutes, 35.8 seconds. Harvard’s was 18 minutes, 52.6 seconds. Yale beat Harvard’s 1995 upstream course record of 18:41.event.
Yale last won in 2007. Harvard has dominated, winning 95 of the previous 149, including seven in a row and 14 of the last 15.
The first race was in 1852. It has been held regularly since 1878, interrupted during the Civil War, World War I and World War II.
Other events in 2015