Hockey's Oldest Rivalry: What Is It?
Ralph Dickinson
2025-05-28 11:56:28
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The oldest rivalry in the history of ice hockey pays its biennial visit to Oxford as the Cambridge Light Blues take on arch-rivals the Oxford Dark Blues. The second is of course the annual varsity match against their arch-rival, the Oxford Blues. This fiercely competed contest is steeped in history and has an intensity like no other. The Cambridge Eskimos, the University’s ‘B’ team, were originally formed in the 1920’s along with the Oxford Cosmopolitans. Their season culminates with the annual varsity match against Oxford.
Adonis King
2025-05-17 18:21:17
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Ice hockey at Cambridge is a tradition that stretches as far back as 1885 and is recognised, by the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, as the oldest ongoing rivalry in the sport of hockey.
Wade Effertz
2025-05-17 14:37:35
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Along with its Oxford archrival, the CUIHC is part of the oldest ice hockey rivalry in the world, culminating each year in the annual Ice Hockey Varsity Match. In the Winter of 1885 the Oxford Blues and Cambridge Blues ice hockey teams travelled to St. Moritz to play the first ever ice hockey match between students from these historic Universities, the two oldest in the English-speaking world. This game became known as the Ice Hockey Varsity Match, and today it remains the oldest annual rivalry in the history of the sport of ice hockey, now approaching its 131st year and 96th annual game. This rivalry, along with the varsity match, is recognised by the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto as the oldest in the world and the 1885 varsity match is likely the first ice hockey match to ever have been played in Europe.
Tamia Schoen
2025-05-17 12:36:59
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Ice hockey at Cambridge is a tradition that stretches as far back as 1885 and is recognised, by the Hockey Hall of Fame, as the oldest ongoing rivalry in the sport of hockey.
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