The College Union Regatta was one of the country’s earliest intercollegiate boating competitions, organized by a number of northeastern colleges in 1858. A convention of college boating clubs was held in New Haven on May 26, 1858. In attendance were Yale, Harvard, Trinity, and Dartmouth, who collectively planned an inaugural annual regatta for August 27 of that same year. However, three days before the competition, George E. Dunham of the Yale team drowned during a practice session, and the regatta was cancelled soon after. Trinity College’s Minnehaha Club did not participate in the College Union Regatta in the years following.

Trinity College in the Twentieth Century: A History (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 29.

The History of Trinity College (1967) by Glenn Weaver, p. 105.

The Trinity Tripod, 1905-03-28.

A history of American college regattas. Boston, Wilson and company, 1875, p. 11.

The Trinity Tablet, 1868-09-26.