There is an I in Team
There is an I in Team

Author: Mark de Rond

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1422171302

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Through numerous examples from sports, highlighted by interviews from distinguished players and coaches around the world, de Rond shows what team leaders can learn by focusing on the individuals within them.

True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

Author: Daniel Topolski

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-03-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1448169909

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WINNER OF THE FIRST WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD Strikingly reminiscent of Chariots of Fire, this classic bestseller tells the story of the sporting event which shook both Oxford University and its Boat Club to the very foundations during the harsh winter of 1986/7. A group of American students arrives at Oxford, hoping to put some steel into a Boat Race crew still reeling from their recent humiliating defeat at the hands of Cambridge. But disagreements over training methods soon bring to a head a bitter clash between the elected President of the Dark Blues and a fiery-tempered rower from California. Much more than the race is at stake in this clash between the amateur sporting tradition of the Boat Race and New World big-star sportsmanship. In the resulting battle, which made headline news worldwide, the rebels, having failed to remove the Boat Club President, pull out six weeks before the race. Can Oxford Coach Topolski, against all odds, mould an inexperienced and demoralized reserve crew of no-hopers into a winning team?

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races

Author: William F. Macmichael

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 3954272644

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Since its establishment in 1829, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is one of the most popular British sport events of the year. These days, nearly a quarter of a million people walk to the river banks to watch the race live and millions of fans follow it on television. William Fisher Macmichael, former student of Downing College, Cambridge, and late secretary of the Cambridge University Boat Club, chronicles the history of the early races from 1829 to 1869. His sources are the official club books from both universities, newspaper accounts and records from eyewitnesses. Macmichael's elaborate report is supplemented by maps of the racing courses, a name index and an introduction on rowing. Reprint of the original edition from 1870.

Blood Over Water
Blood Over Water

Author: David Livingston

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1408801191

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'The Boat Race is the most divisive event in rowing … An extraordinary and gripping story of a battle between brothers' Sir Matthew Pinsent

The Social History of English Rowing
The Social History of English Rowing

Author: Neil Wigglesworth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1135187746

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This book seeks to redress the balance of reporting in the sport's literature which has always favoured the activities of aquatic gentlemen at the public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Henley Regatta and on the River Thames. This study focuses on the many who helped instigate and nurture the sport but who have been forgotten due to their not being associated with the elite of the sport.

Oxbridge Men
Oxbridge Men

Author: Paul R. Deslandes

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2005-05-04

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253111258

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The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth, Paul R. Deslandes explores the everyday life of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge to examine how they experienced manhood. He considers phenomena such as the dynamics of the junior common room, the competition of exams, and the social and athletic obligations of intercollegiate boat races to show how rituals, activities, relationships, and discourses all contributed to gender formation. Casting light on the lived experience of undergraduates, Oxbridge Men shows how an influential brand of British manliness was embraced, altered, and occasionally rejected as these students grew from boys into men.