Boat Race "Pre-View" -- The rival crews seen together as the Light Blues having just pulled into the bank after a training row, watch the Dark Blues pull away, with great interest, as Oxford go out for a training row, on the Tideway at Putney. The Oxford and Cambridge crews now afloat on the Tideway at Putney, where they are completing their training for the Boat Race on April 3rd. got some idea of what they are up against today, when they saw each other in training, on the River Thames. April 7, 1954. (Photo by Fox Photos).