In another classic HYP Regatta on the Charles River, the Yale 150s took home the David H. Vogel ‘71 Cup for 5-boat team supremacy, but not the Vincent Bowditch Goldthwait Cup, awarded to the winner of the varsity race. After a Harvard win in the 2F, Yale pulled off three wins in a row, all in dramatic fashion. The 3V had the narrowest win of the day, a 0.3 second margin separating them from the Tigers, who led most of the race. The 1F won from post-to-post, but not without a strong challenge from Harvard all the way down the course. The 2V race was similar to the 3V race in that a Princeton lead was chipped away at by the Bulldogs, who got through the Tigers to win by 1.2 seconds. In the Goldthwait Cup race, Yale took the early lead at 500 in, but Princeton moved back to pull one seat up at the 1000, and never looked back, pushing out to a length lead for the 2.8 second Goldthwait Cup victory, the first for Princeton since 1999.
The points totals for the Vogel Cup were:
Yale 35 Princeton 31 Harvard 19