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The 1889 Oxford University Rugby Union Varsity Match team. The University of Oxford RFC was founded in 1869, fifteen months before the creation of the Rugby Football Union. The first Varsity Match was played in February 1872 in Oxford at 'The Parks', the following year the return game was played in Cambridge on Parker's Piece. In 1874 it was ...
Oxford Rugby League was a semi-professional rugby league club based in Oxford, England.The club was formed in 2012 and joined League 1 in 2013, playing for five seasons before agreeing to merge with Gloucestershire All Golds following the 2017 season, resulting in both clubs exiting the league in order to form a new club, Bristol Rugby League, which intended to enter League 1 from the 2019 season.
The Rugby League Varsity Match is an annual rugby league match between Cambridge University and Oxford University. The first Varsity match took place on Sunday 26 April 1981 at Craven Cottage . [ 1 ]
It was a year after the first ever rugby international (Scotland v England). Both Cambridge and Oxford sent officials to meet and arrange a match between each other. At The Parks, Oxford, they played a 20 a-side version of the game (as opposed to today's 15 a-side games; the teams would be set to 15 a-side in 1875 [5]). Oxford won the inaugural ...
Iffley Road is the home ground of the Oxford University Rugby Football Club. [2] Many matches against international teams have been played at Iffley Road. Oxford University has played there against South Africa six times (1906, 1912, 1931, 1951, 1960 and 1969), New Zealand 5 times (1905, 1924, 1935, 1953 and 1963) and Australia 8 times (1908, 1927, 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1981 and 2001).
Rugby League reached Oxford University in 1976 and the first Varsity fixture against Cambridge University took place in 1981. The varsity match has ' discretionary full blue ' status. Student Rugby League reached Scotland in 1989 when a group of students at Aberdeen University established a team and formed the first Scotland Students squad
Rugby union footballers who have represented Oxford University RFC Pages in category "Oxford University RFC players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 369 total.
Oxford RFC 1st XV regularly play against many other local 2nd and 3rd XV's as part of their league season (23/24 Season including: Banbury RFC 2nd XV, Tring RFC 2nd XV, Oxford Quins 3rd XV, Witney 2nd XV). Despite this, and rightfully so, Oxford RFC still approach each week with great enthusiasm and a positive rugby ethos.