and Cambridge University A.F.C., instigated by Harold Warris Thompson, professor at St. John's College, Oxford and later an administrator with The Football Association.
[1] At first, members had to be current Oxford or Cambridge University players or to have left the previous year, but this rule was later relaxed.
[3] In the postwar years, Oxbridge students included many men in their twenties demobilised from service in World War II.
[1] Pegasus had an attractive style similar to the Tottenham Hotspur of the day, whose Vic Buckingham and Bill Nicholson had previously coached Oxford and Cambridge respectively.
[5] Changes in university culture in the 1960s and defections to Corinthian-Casuals undermined its ethos and the club folded in 1963, following an Oxfordshire Senior Cup tie against Marston United.