A Yank at Cambridge: B.H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion - Paperbackby Goran R. Buckhorn (Author) "A Yank at Cambridge B. H. Howell: The Forgotten Champion" is the story about Benjamin Hunting Howell of New York, who arrived at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, England, in the autumn of 1894 to study. Howell had not previously rowed in America, but he soon found himself out boating on the River Cam. The following summer, the young American was in the Trinity Hall Boat Club crew that took the Grand Challenge Cup for