History of AAGPS Head of the River Rowing Regatta

1921 NSW AAGPS Head of the River

The new entrants to the championship continued again in 1921 with Newington College racing. Like Kings, they also won in their first start. Newington was coached by old boy E R Barker and prominant sportsman Ossie J Wood.

The entry of King's in 1920 signalled a six crew race which was too many for safe and fair racing on the river course. Put simply, the course was too narrow in places. Heats were introduced in 1921 to overcome this situation. Winners and losers finals were introduced also.

The race was conducted on 30th April.

Index to Results:

Head of the River
First Four
Second Four

Organising Committee

Organising Committee: AAGPS

Head of the River

Time: Not known

1st Newington College - Bow: C N Andrews, 2: R Fairlie, 3: T E Wiseman, 4: E Bardsley, 5: F A Calder, 6: D R Baker, 7: C R Laverty, Str: F N Chenall, Cox: A W Morrow, Cchs: E R Barker & Ossie J Wood

Losers Final
1st unknown
2nd St Ignatius College - Cch: Chris Kayser

First Four

Time: Not known

1st The King's School
2nd unknown
3rd St Ignatius College

Second Four

Time: Not known

1st unknown
2nd unknown
3rd unknown
4th 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.

Steve Roll has been an invaluable contributor to the website in locating errors and finding Christian names of rowers. His superb work is acknowledged.

© Andrew Guerin – 2004
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1921 NSW AAGPS Head of the River

Organising Committee

Head of the River

First Four

Second Four

NSW AAGPS Head of River

Summaries