Cambridge University R.U.F.C.

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The Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club, or CURUFC, is the rugby union club of Cambridge University, and plays Oxford University in the annual Varsity Match at Twickenham stadium every December. CURUFC players wear light blue and white hooped jerseys with a red lion crest. Many have gone on to represent their country and the British and Irish Lions.

[edit] History

Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club was officially established 1872, around three years after the Oxford rugby club was founded. The first Varsity match was contested between the two teams that year. CURUFC officials helped to draw up the laws of the game that were adopted by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) when it was established in 1871. Cambridge became a Constituent Body of the Union in 1872, a status which the club still holds today.