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Blue Boar RFC is based at the Blue Boar pub in the village of Longworth in Oxfordshire. Our home games are normally played at Oxford RFC.
The club played its first game of rugby in March 1977, as a result of a challenge by Blackwells Bookshop in Oxford. The occasion proved so enjoyable that the following season several more matches were arranged against local sides, and the club became affiliated to the Oxfordshire RFU.
In succeeding seasons, the number of fixtures and strength of opposition increased, and in May 1981 the club was elected to the Rugby Football Union.
In September 1980, the club made its first tour to Cornwall; there were further visits to the Duchy in 1987, 1988 and 1989. The first foreign tour came in 1981, when a party of 35 players and supporters went to Brittany and enjoyed themselves so much that they returned there a year later.
In 1991, the club had the honour of making the first official tour by an English RFU club to Hungary, which was ably hosted by the Hungarian Rugby Union.
This year, we are returning to Hungary for a short tour in October with two games against clubs in Szazhalombatta and Esztergom.
Highlight of the 2003/2004 season was reaching the final of the Oxfordshire Knockout Cup Plate competition.
Brian Kentish 01865 820711
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