 The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 12 st 9 @.@ 5 lb ( 80 @.@ 3 kg ) , 5 pounds ( 2 @.@ 3 kg ) per rower more than their opponents . The Oxford crew saw two members return to the boat , including the cox W. R. Marsh and their boat club president H. M. C. Quick , who was making his third consecutive appearance . Cambridge 's crew contained a single participant with Boat Race experience in their stroke and boat club president J. A. N. Wallis . According to the rowing correspondent for The Times , " perhaps the crews have never been more closely matched " . Oxford 's crew contained four non @-@ British participants , all of them Australian , in E. V. Vine , J. A. Gobbo , J. G. McLeod and Edward Pain . 
