During WW2 the Varsity Match was put on hold, however during those six years of global conflict Oxford and Cambridge did play each other at rugby home and away, although the results do not form part of the official Varsity Match records. The Pathe News footage in the link below, despite indicating the game was […]
Month: February 2021
Celebrating the inaugural Varsity Match
On the 10th February 1872 the very first Varsity Match was played in the University Parks, Oxford, with the Dark Blues claiming the victory by 1 goal to nil and has since become one of the world’s longest running sporting fixtures. It represents the pinnacle of amateur and student rugby where two of the most prestigious […]