IRA Regatta

The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) was formed in 1895 by several Northeastern colleges after Harvard and Yale quit the Rowing Association (established in 1871) to stage an annual race of their own (see Harvard-Yale Race). Since then the IRA Regatta has been contested over courses of varing lengths in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Marietta, Ohio, Syracuse, N.Y. and Camden, N.J.

Distances:

4 miles (1895-97,1899-1916,1925-41); 3 miles (1898,1921-24,1947-49,1952-63,1965-67); 2 miles (1920,1950-51); 2000 meters (1964, since 1968).

Multiple winners:

• Cornell University (24)
• United States Naval Academy (13)
• University of California, Berkeley (12)
• University of Washington (11)
• University of Pennsylvania (9)
• Brown University and University of Wisconsin at Madison (7)
• Syracuse University (6)
• Columbia University (4)
• Princeton University (3)
• Northeastern University (2)

Varsity Heavyweight Eight Winners

• 1895 Columbia
• 1896 Cornell
• 1897 Cornell
• 1898 Penn
• 1899 Penn
• 1900 Penn
• 1901 Cornell
• 1902 Cornell
• 1903 Cornell
• 1904 Syracuse
• 1905 Cornell
• 1906 Cornell
• 1907 Cornell
• 1908 Syracuse
• 1909 Cornell
• 1910 Cornell
• 1911 Cornell
• 1912 Cornell
• 1913 Syracuse
• 1914 Columbia
• 1915 Cornell
• 1916 Syracuse
  
• 1917-19 Not held due to World War I
  
• 1920 Syracuse
• 1921 Navy
• 1922 Navy
• 1923 Washington
• 1924 Washington
• 1925 Navy
• 1926 Washington
• 1927 Columbia
• 1928 California
• 1929 Columbia
• 1930 Cornell
• 1931 Navy
• 1932 California
  
• 1933 Not held due to Great Depression
  
• 1934 California
• 1935 California
• 1936 Washington
• 1937 Washington
• 1938 Navy
• 1939 California
• 1940 Washington
• 1941 Washington
  
• 1942-46 Not held due to World War II
  
• 1947 Navy
• 1948 Washington
• 1949 California
• 1950 Washington
• 1951 Wisconsin
• 1952 Navy
• 1953 Navy
• 1954 Navy*
• 1955 Cornell
• 1956 Cornell
• 1957 Cornell
• 1958 Cornell
• 1959 Wisconsin
• 1960 California
• 1961 California
• 1962 Cornell
• 1963 Cornell
• 1964 California
• 1965 Navy
• 1966 Wisconsin
• 1967 Penn
• 1968 Penn
• 1969 Penn
• 1970 Washington
• 1971 Cornell
• 1972 Penn
• 1973 Wisconsin
• 1974 Wisconsin
• 1975 Wisconsin
• 1976 California
• 1977 Cornell
• 1978 Syracuse
• 1979 Brown
• 1980 Navy
• 1981 Cornell
• 1982 Cornell
• 1983 Brown
• 1984 Navy
• 1985 Princeton
• 1986 Brown
• 1987 Brown
• 1988 Northeastern
• 1989 Penn
• 1990 Wisconsin
• 1991 Northeastern
• 1992 Dartmouth, Navy & Penn**
• 1993 Brown
• 1994 Brown
• 1995 Brown
• 1996 Princeton
• 1997 Washington
• 1998 Princeton
• 1999 California
• 2000 California

  * Navy disqualified for ineligible coxswain, no trophy awarded.

  ** Three way dead heat.