 The Oxford boat club president Andy Hall said "the water was round our ankles ... we made a mistake in doing that warm-up over part of the course ... there was so much water on board that I thought 'God, we're going to sink. ' It was really hopeless after that." In losing the race, Hall became the first Oxonian to lose four Boat Races in the 20th century. Jim Railton, writing in The Times summarised the race: "Cambridge beat the Tideway and the Tideway beat Oxford." According to Dickie Burnell, "to say that the race was soon over would be a mis-statement. It never really began."
