Philadelphia Boat Club
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| Location | #7 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Home water | Schuylkill River |
| Established | 1854 |
| Navy admission | 1858 (founding member) |
| President | Howard Greenberg, Esq. |
| Secretary | Richard E. Wegryn |
| Treasurer | Dixon Shay |
| Coxswain | Bruce LaLonde |
| Captain | John Curtin III |
| Navy delegate | Brian McLelland |
| Membership | 200 |
| Colors | Royal Blue and White |
| Affiliations | Chestnut Hill Academy and Springside School |
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University Barge Club of Philadelphia (also known as UBC) is an amateur rowing club located at #7 in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark. The Club's founding, in 1854, is considered the "dawn of organized athletics in the University of Pennsylvania." Known as "the upper-class rowing club," UBC is a founder, and the most senior member, of the oldest amateur athletic governing body in the United States, the Schuylkill Navy.
University Barge Club was founded in 1854 by ten members of the University of Pennsylvania’s freshman class: They first rowed out of a Schuylkill boathouse near the Fairmount Waterworks known simply as "Charlie’s boathouse". The Club was officially formed when the founders purchased its first boat, the Hesperus, from Bachelors Barge Club. Club members wore sailor uniforms from clothier Jacob Reed that were monogrammed with “U.B.C.” on their hats and belts. In 1855, members of the Club, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Barge Club, built a one-story brick boathouse on rented land. The Club purchased a second boat, named Lucifer. After 1860, both boats were moved to a space rented from the Philadelphia Skating Club, which is now the Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club.
At first, membership was limited to students enrolled at Penn, but the Club was not listed as a student organization of the University until 1867, when the University Barge Club won the Schuylkill Navy championship flag. Membership was later opened to Penn alumni and certain non-alumni.
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