In the 1913 Boat Race, Horsfall was stroking and he went out very strong in the beginning, more than his crew could take. Cambridge went up in the lead. It was first at the Brewery, the two boats were level after that Horsfall literally had driven his crew up inch by inch. The magazine Isis wrote:
“When Oxford seemed beaten Horsfall quickened the pace and drove his crew with merciless insistence until they achieved the impossible only a minute or two before the end by just three-quarters of a length […] Mr. Horsfall is a declared misogynist. But the attitude of the opposite sex does not encourage him in his views. What young lady, who has seen him swinging down the river, delighting in the freedom of his limbs and the freshness of the air, with his fair tangled locks streaming in the breeze, could do aught but admire?”
The following year, 1914, Ward, Horsfall, Wiggins, and coxswain Wells were still in the dark blue boat, but this year Oxford did not stand a chance to Cambridge powerful row. The light blues won by 4 ½ lengths. Following is a newsreel from the 1914 race on the Thames on 28 March.
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