Join us for the Varsity Rugby Match at Twickenham on Thursday 11th December.
The Queens’ reunion will take place in the Cambridge marquee at the Blues Village, in the West car park. The Blues Village is open from 11am to 7pm with live music, great food and dedicated bars serving Spitfire Premium Kentish ale, Pol Roger champagne and Glenfarclas malt whisky. Kickoff is at 2.30pm.
We are delighted to welcome our alumni to Twickenham for the game, and hope to greet some of our former international stars too. Tickets for the Blues Village are £50 per person, including a top priced ticket, spot on the halfway line in the East Stand and a free pint or glass of wine.
Commemoration Plans
The 133rd Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge is being turned into a major commemoration of the 55 Blues who fell in World War 1.
All season the two clubs have been developing plans to celebrate the lives of the 55 players – 27 Oxford and 28 Cambridge – who lost their lives in the great conflict between 1914-18 and already Oxford have linked with Rugby School in remembering Ernest Boyd, the first Blue to fall on 20 October, 1914.
The Universities are inviting all the schools linked to the 55 Blues to attend the game as their guests on Thursday, 11 December and they will be involved with a wreath laying ceremony at the RFU’s War Memorial at the ground before kick-off.
The teams will take to the field for the game via a guard of honour made up of players from the University Colleges representing the fallen Blues and the Last Post will be played before kick-off.
Former Wales and British & Irish Lions back row forward Eddie Butler, a Cambridge Blue in 1976-78, will read out the names of the ‘55 Fallen Blues’ as the teams line-up before kick-offand their photographs will appear on the big screens and perimeter signage at the ground.
