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Meet Your 2025/26 Women*s Captain, Chloe-Marie Hawley
Last week, the last of the wider women*s student committee was elected and the Student Executive Committees for both sections were...

Grace Gibson
Jun 176 min read


Meet Your 2025/26 Men*s Captain, Jack Hamilton
Last week, the last of the wider women*s student committee was elected and the Student Executive Committees for both sections were...

Grace Gibson
Jun 176 min read


Blue #1013, Ray Lehner Enters US Rugby Hall of Fame
OURFC would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Ray Lehner on his well-deserved Craig Sweeney Award which puts him among the...

Grace Gibson
Jun 133 min read


Chris Harris & OURFC Lions
With the 2025 Lions squad named in the last few weeks and the tour fast approaching, I took the opportunity to get some inside...

Grace Gibson
Jun 95 min read


TIANA GORDON AND SOCIAL CONNECTION
Like many female rugby players, Tiana Gordon experienced the game for the first time at university. She went to a ‘give it a go’ session...

Grace Gibson
May 236 min read


VAUGHAN PARRY WILLIAMS AWARD
OURFC would like to extend our warmest and proudest congratulations to Lynn Evans on winning the 2025 Vaughan Parry Williams Award for...

Grace Gibson
May 122 min read


BILL CALCRAFT ON THE VARSITY MATCHES
In the build-up to the Men*s Blues game against international touring team the Penguins (match report here ), I caught up with Bill...

Grace Gibson
Mar 56 min read


BREAKING THE LINE: HOW THE FIRST WOMEN'S VARSITY MATCH CAME TO BE
I spoke to the first Women’s Captain and Founder of OUWRFC, Heather Lawrence, where I learnt how the Women’s Varsity Match came to be.

Grace Gibson
Feb 287 min read


2025 OXFORD BLUES VARSITY CAPTAINS
With just over a week to go until the Big Day, we hope that you’ve already secured your tickets . If not, secure them now to support...

Grace Gibson
Feb 255 min read


Lynn Evans on The Varsity Matches
Lynn in the OURFC changing rooms in 2019, all photographs from Alex Mead's book 150 Years of Oxford University Rugby Football Club ...

Grace Gibson
Feb 33 min read


The Ferret Speaks: Varsity Match Memories
Interview by Grace Gibson For recent generations of Blues, there is an institution that seems to be as well-established as the Varsity...

Zed Nott
Jan 213 min read


Women's first Varsity Match reflections | 10th March 1988
This season marks the ten-year anniversary of the merging of the women*s and men*s sections of the club, with OUWRFC joining OURFC to...

Ian Kench
Jan 93 min read


OURFC’S Lily Phillips represents England Deaf Squad on their tour to South Africa
OURFC’s number 11 Lily Phillips graduated from the club this year, but did not hang her boots up after Varsity - instead, Phillips...
z3dnott
Oct 14, 20243 min read


Alex Wilikinson to Start for England U20 v Wales
Two time Blue and recently elected captain for the 2024/25 season Alex Wilkinson is set to start at scrum-half for England Women's U20s...

Ian Kench
May 4, 20241 min read
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