Oxford beat favorite Cambridge by five lengths to win the 152nd annual Boat Race on Sunday.
The Dark Blues crew made it four wins in five races to out-row Cambridge -- the 4-7 favorite -- in choppy conditions over the 6.8km race on the River Thames in central London.
Oxford timed 18 minutes, 26 seconds to be :15 ahead of Cambridge, which took in water for much of the race.
The Light Blues of Cambridge still lead the series 78-73 with one race finishing in a dead heat.
"We knew it would be kicking up a headwind right up on the Hammersmith Bridge and we were just ready for it. We pushed through and just broke them," said James Schroeder, one of two Americans on the Oxford crew.
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