History of AAGPS Head of the River Rowing Regatta

1918 NSW AAGPS Head of the River

Sydney Grammar made this year the two of their hat trick of wins in the first eights. They used a very similar crew to 1917 with the same stroke, cox, coach and 3 others.

The race was a grim contest with four of the five crews almost level with only a short distance to the finish line.

The Scots College boated a crew for the first time in 1918 with a crew stroked by W R McFadyen.

Index to Results:

First Eight
First Four
Second Four

Organising Committee and Officials

Organising Committee: AAGPS

Head of the River

Time: Not known

1st Sydney Grammar School - Bow: A C (Johnny) Wallace, 2: F H Ludowici, 3: L H Moore, 4: M N Sexton, 5: N F Stewart, 6: J D Fraser, 7: J H Blakemore, Str: T M Barnet, Cox: J S Laidley, Cch: W H (Sav) Savigny
4th St Ignatius College - Cch: W Furlong
Scots College - Str: W R McFadyen

First Four

Time: Not known

1st St Joseph's College
4th St Ignatius College

Second Four

Time: Not known

1st unknown
2nd St Ignatius College

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The idea for this history originated from the Olympic Rowing and World Senior Rowing Championship histories written by Andrew Guerin and Margot Foster in 1991, 1992 & 1993 for the Australian team handbooks. Andrew Guerin developed and extended these histories to the current format in 2004 for publication in 2004 and then expanded the site.

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1918 NSW AAGPS Head of the River

Organising Committee and Officials

Head of the River

First Four

Second Four

NSW AAGPS Head of River

Summaries