Editing Brasenose College, Oxford (section)

===Sport===

Brasenose students participate in a wide range of sports including football, netball, hockey, lacrosse, basketball, badminton, squash, pool, rugby, darts, boxing, dancesport and more. Student play at all levels and participation is completely optional and forms no part of the admissions process.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brasnose Sport |url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/current-students/college-life/sport |website=Brasenose |access-date=27 April 2022}}</ref>

[[Brasenose College Boat Club]] (commonly abbreviated to BNCBC) is the [[rowing (sport)|rowing]] club of the college and is believed to be one of the oldest boat clubs in the world. The date of formation of the club is impossible to verify: a boat from the college took part in the earliest recorded race between rowing clubs anywhere in the world. This was a [[Bumps race|head race]] in Oxford in 1815, beating [[Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)|Jesus College Boat Club]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sherwood |first=WE |title=Oxford Rowing: A History of Boat-Racing at Oxford from the Earliest Times |year=1900 |publisher=Henry Frowde |place=Oxford and London |page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft/page/8 8] |url= https://archive.org/details/oxfordrowinghist00sheruoft}}</ref> A number of college members have rowed for the university against [[Cambridge University]] in the [[Boat Race]] and the [[Henley Boat Races|Women's Boat Race]]. Notably, [[Walter Bradford Woodgate|Walter Woodgate]], a Boat Race winner, eleven-time [[Henley Royal Regatta|Henley]] champion and inventor of the [[coxless four]], [[John Cherry (rower)|John (Con) Cherry]] who represented [[Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics]] in [[Berlin]] and [[Andrew Lindsay]] who won a gold medal in rowing at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]], and participated in the Boat Race in 1998 and 1999.

The college [[boathouse]], which is shared with [[Exeter College Boat Club]], is in [[Christ Church Meadow, Oxford|Christ Church Meadow]], on the Isis (as the [[River Thames]] is called in Oxford). It replaced a moored barge used by club-member and spectators.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} Brasenose College Rugby Football Club (abbreviated to BNCRFC) can draw association with [[William Webb Ellis]], who is often credited as the inventor of the game and studied at Brasenose.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}