True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
1989 book by Dan Topolski and Patrick / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny is a non-fiction book written by Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson and published in 1989. It tells the story of the 1987 Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race and the disagreement amongst the Oxford crew known as the "Oxford mutiny".[1] It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1989, the award's inaugural year.
Author | Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | 1989 |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
Pages | 320 pp. |
ISBN | 0-553-40003-7 |
OCLC | 22003117 |
Topolski was Oxford's rowing coach, and the book describes his conflicts with the squad and principally five US international oarsmen who were enrolled that year at Oxford. Disagreements over training methods and crew selection ultimately led to the Americans leaving the crew shortly before the race. With a severely depleted crew, still suffering from the fall-out of the "mutiny", Oxford went on to beat Cambridge in the 1987 Boat Race.