There are few institutions which are as obsessed with the past and tradition in the same way that Oxford University tends to be. Rugby has a similar tendency to dwell on the past, meaning that ensuring the annual Rugby Union Varsity fixtures are something of a match made in heaven,
This Sunday’s football Varsity against Cambridge will be the 138th played by the men and the 37th by the women since the club was founded in 1872. The dark blues will be looking for a repeat of last year’s double victory, a success which saw Oxford lifting both trophies. However
This year will see the final cricket Varsity competition played at Lord’s Cricket Ground. The first of these games was played in 1827 and has continued since then every year aside from the interruption of World Wars I and II, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Though the weather was soon to change, as lightning gradually approached Mattioli Woods Welford Road, the Dark Blues’ performance refused any kind of change."
"It has been the case for every other sports club in the university that this has been a strange and difficult academic year, but OURFC have the chance to cap it all off with two wins over the Tabs in front of a crowd of dark blue in Leicester. "
Captain Dom Waldouck said that he was "so proud of what the group has become, how close we are, how much we care about each other and I think we showed that when we came under a lot of pressure today.”
