 The hope was expressed that Cambridge would follow suit, and that the Varsity races would soon resume.It did not, though, prove possible to organize a challenge race prior to the outbreak of World War II, mobilization for which stripped Oxford (and Cambridge) of most of its students and led to the disappearance of the so-recently reconstituted club.During the 1950/51 academic year a small club was once again active, though mainly for the purposes of recreational cycling.