The men’s 2016 preseason training camp got underway on a beautiful, sunny Friday evening at Iffley Road, with more than 60 players in attendance for the club ‘Open Weekend’, under the ever watchful eye of Head Coach James Wade and Captain Fergus Taylor. The numbers have now been reduced for two weeks of intensive training […]
Month: August 2016
Sam Egerton Off To A Flying Start At Falcons
Four time Blue Sam Egerton has enjoyed a great start to his full-time rugby career at Premiership outfit Newcastle Falcons, claiming a starting spot in all three of their preseason matches. For full details please click on the link below: http://www.premiershiprugby.com/news/40018.php#kB2FSwXeOyAWGQvJ.97
Fishing For Glory
As with most OURFC players, one is never quite sure what they get up to when they are not playing, training or studying, and current Blues second row Andrew Grant (Kellogg) is no exception. On the weekend of the 5th to 7th August, ‘Granty’ spent 40 hours on the bank of the Drayton reservoir, fishing […]
Ralph Weir’s Charity Trek
2014 OURFC Greyhounds Captain and Blue, Ralph Weir (Wadham) last Friday (12th August) embarked on a170 mile solo trek down the Outer Hebrides to raise money for the ‘Against Malaria’ Charity. For more information on Ralph’s ‘adventure’ and to a make a donation, please click on the link below: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/RalphWeir
Tom Mitchell Wins Olympic Silver Medal
Tom Mitchell who gained a Blue for Oxford in 2011, led the Team GB Rugby 7’s squad to a well-deserved silver medal at the Rio Olympics on Thursday evening. Team GB went into the final unbeaten having seen off Kenya, Japan and New Zealand in the pool stages, Argentina in a sudden death quarter-final and […]
OURFC’s Marathon Man – Andrew Abraham
Andrew Abraham who was a replacement in the 2015 Varsity Match, proved he is OURFC’s very own ‘Marathon Man’ when he finished 12th out of 956 competitors in the ‘Run to the Stones’ Ultramarathon in a time of 10 hours, 40 minutes and 2 seconds for the 100 mile endurance test. On completion, Roo was […]
REG CLARK RECOGNISED FOR SERVICES TO ANGLO JAPANESE RELATIONS
OURFC 1979 Club Secretary Reg Clark was recently honoured by the Japanese government for services to Anglo-Japanese relations. The citation of the Foreign Minister’s Commendation moreover specifically refers to his role in honouring the memory of his fellow OURFC member the late Ambassador Katsuhiko Oku (1982-83). The pair first met in 1982 when Clark was […]