page_title: Eights Week
section_title: Head of the River – Men
hierarchical_section_title: Eights Week / Head of the River – Men
caption_attribution_description: English: The (cropped) picture shows part of the earliest-known scene of a race between two eight-oared boats at Oxford University. It has been suggested that the picture shows the "disputed bump" of 1822 in a race between Jesus College and Brasenose College, but this is uncertain. See Sherwood's book at page 10 for more information; also Jesus College Boat Club
context_page_description: Eights Week, also known as Summer Eights, is a four-day regatta of bumps races which constitutes the University of Oxford's main intercollegiate rowing event of the year. The regatta takes place in May of each year, from the Wednesday to the Saturday of the fifth week of Trinity Term. Men's and women's coxed eights compete in separate divisions for their colleges, with some colleges entering as many as five crews for each sex.
  Summer VIIIs has seven men's divisions alongside six for women's, encompassing a total of 171 boats and around 1,500 participants. Including the qualifying rounds, in which success is termed "Rowing On", the number of participants in 2003 was over 1,800.
context_section_description: Eights Week has been held since 1815.
  No racing occurred during World War I.  In World War II, although college rowing continued, there were insufficient students for normal racing between colleges to be maintained.  As a consequence, most colleges competed in composite clubs, and the number of crews competing was greatly curtailed.  After the war, normal racing continued, and in 1946 college crews started in the order in which they finished in 1939.
caption: The earliest-known scene of a race between two eight-oared boats at Oxford University. It has been suggested that the picture shows the "disputed bump" of 1822 in a race between Jesus College and Brasenose College, but this is uncertain.
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