Candler v Dick and the battle for the Calcutta Cup, 1938

The first live televised broadcast of a rugby match took place eighty years ago on 19 March 1938.  The match broadcast that day was the final round of what is now known as the Six Nations Championship but which was then played between the four Home Nations. That year, England and Scotland were competing for the … Read more

Varsity Match Icon: Cecil Douglas Baker (1870-1917)

Two of the fifty-five Blues who died in conflict in 1917 have been chosen as ‘Varsity Match Icons’ for the 2017 Varsity Match fixture: John Argentine Campbell who attended Fettes College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and Old Shirburnian, Cecil Douglas Baker: ‘Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou liv’st Live well – how … Read more