The semi-finals of the 2015 Cuppers competition were concluded in the final week of term with the finals to be played in first week of the Trinity term. In the Cup, the two powerhouses of college rugby in recent years, St Edmund Hall and Keble will meet again after they overcame New and Hertford respectively. […]
Month: March 2015
Trinity Claim The Spoils In Dublin
They say a week is a long time in politics, this last week the same analogy can be made to sport. This time last week Captain George Messum had thirteen Blues in the starting XV for this always tough fixture with Trinity College, Dublin, come kick-off four of those key players were stood on the […]
Blues Squad To Play Trinity College, Dublin
On Wednesday afternoon (18th March), OURFC will play their final 15-a-side fixture of the 2014/15 season when they travel to Dublin to play Trinity College in what has become an eagerly anticipated annual encounter between the two historic universities. Captain George Messum has seen his original squad depleted because of injuries sustained during Cuppers semi-finals […]
Men’s and Women’s Clubs Merger
Following lengthy discussions and consultation with their alumni, Oxford University Women’s Rugby Club voted at their AGM on Tuesday 10th March to a merger of the women’s club with the men’s club to be implemented over the next 12 months. The decision has been taken alongside the move of the Women’s Varsity Match to Twickenham in […]
Twickenham, here we come! Oxford and Cambridge Women set for rugby’s biggest stage
The Varsity Match will break new ground at Twickenham Stadium on 10th December 2015, when the Oxford and Cambridge women kick-off a new double header. After 27 years of ploughing their own furrow, the women’s clubs have been invited to become part of the main Varsity Match event at the home of English Rugby – and […]
Ronald Owen Landen Remembered
Born: 12 November, 1889 in Maseru, Basutoland Died: KIA St Eloi, BelgiumMacedonia, on 3 March, 1915, aged 25. School: Marlborough College College: Oriel College, Oxford Blues: 1909, 1910, 1911 Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium (Panel 51 and 53) When it comes to brotherly one-upmanship there can hardly be anything better than bowling out […]
Jersey Auction
At Iffley Road on Wednesday night at the Blues final home match of the season against the Penguins, OURFC launched their 2015 Charity Partnership with Winston’s Wish. As part of the club’s fund raising activities with the charity, the team played in ‘bespoke’ jersey’s branded with the Winston’s Wish logo and all 23 playing jersey’s […]
Blues Defeat Penguins In Final Home Match Of The Season
Oxford University bowed out from Iffley Road for this season with a brilliant 29-10 victory against The Penguins to lift the Alan Wright Trophy for the first time. Captain George Messum was proud of his side’s impressive comeback which saw the Blues rack up five tries courtesy of Nick Gardner, Jacob Taylor, Ed David, Zandy […]
OURFC Squad To Face Penguins
For OURFC’s last home fixture of the 2014/15 season, Captain George Messum and Coach James Wade have been able to call upon a mixture of experience and youth in a squad that still includes nine Blues from the 2014 Varsity Match, as they take on the Penguin International XV at Iffley Road on Wednesday night, […]
Tom Allen Remembered
Born: 24 September, 1887 in Tewkesbury Died: KIA at Guinchy, 26 February,1915, aged 27. He had been at the front line for only three weeks. Regiment: 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards School: Cheltenham College College: Trinity Blue 1909 Commemorated: Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France (Plot II, Row B, Grave 34) It was said […]