Bull College

Bull College was the name commonly used for a branch of the Training Within Civilian Agencies programme of the US Army, which, during Michaelmas (winter) term 1945 and Lent (spring) term 1946, allowed American military personnel to study at the University of Cambridge at the conclusion of the Second World War.

[2] Bull students made an impression on the university, not least through the first participation of a female coxswain in a Cambridge boat race, in the 1946 Lent Bumps.

Plans were made to sustain the college on a longer-term basis using charitable funding, but these came to nothing.

Bull students were able to witness the 1946 Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race before being recalled to active service.

[4] David Braybrooke, later a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was amongst the servicemen who participated in 1945.