page_title: The Boat Race 1900
section_title: Crews
hierarchical_section_title: The Boat Race 1900 / Crews
caption_attribution_description: English: Caricature of Raymond Etherington-Smith. Caption read “Ethel”.
context_page_description: The 57th Boat Race took place on 31 March 1900. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Cambridge won by twenty lengths in a record-equalling time of 18 minutes 45 seconds, taking the overall record in the event to 32–24 in Oxford's favour.
context_section_description: The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 4.625 lb (78.1 kg), 0.25 pounds (0.1 kg) per rower more than their opponents.  Oxford's crew contained three members with Boat Race experience: C. E. Johnston, C. W. Tomlkinson and cox G. S. Maclagan.  Cambridge saw six of their 1899 crew return, including William Dudley Ward and Raymond Broadly Etherington-Smith, both of whom were rowing in their third race.  Eight of the nine Light Blues were students at Trinity College. Oxford's stroke H. H. Dutton, a native of South Australia, was the only non-British participant registered in the race.  Author and former Oxford rower George Drinkwater suggested that this year's Cambridge crew, along with the Oxford crew which rowed in the 1897 race, "stand in a class by themselves among University crews."  He also described the Oxford crew as "one of the poorest that ever came from the Isis".
caption: Raymond Etherington-Smith rowed for Cambridge in the number five seat.
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