Why are there boat races between Oxford University and Cambridge University?

1829 The match between Charles Wordsworth of Oxford and Charles Melville of Cambridge in the spring. Therefore, since 1856, this has become an annual compulsory tradition of the two schools. At the turn of March and April, we chose a weekend. In the competition area about 7 kilometers by the Thames, players from Oxford and Cambridge chased each other on the river, and the audience on both sides cheered. From 180, the match between the two schools was interrupted by two world wars and never cancelled once. Established the reputation of "the longest sports competition in the world". This was originally a dispute between the gentlemen of the two governments, and unconsciously it has become a culture that the British are proud of.