Since the 2007–08 season they have been members of the Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division. In 1973, Ely won the international "Jeux Sans Frontières" competition (known in Britain as "It's a Knockout!"), becoming the last British town to win the title outright (Dartmouth finished joint-first with Lisbon in 1981). The University of Cambridge rowing club has a boathouse on the bank of the river, and trains there for the annual Boat Race against the University of Oxford. In 1944, the Boat Race took place on a course on the River Great Ouse near Ely, the only time it has not been held on the River Thames. On that occasion the race was won by Oxford. The Isle of Ely Rowing Club was formed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of this event. A short lived greyhound racing track was opened on Saturday 13 May 1933 at the Downham Road Stadium. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the National Greyhound Racing Club) and was known as a flapping track, which was the nickname given to independent tracks. Ely is also home to Ely Tigers Rugby Club, who currently play their trade in the London 3: Eastern Counties division. King's Ely claims to have beginnings in the re-foundation of St Etheldreda's monastery in 970 by the Benedictine order. The wealthy sent their sons to such places to learn how to read and translate Latin texts. Edward the Confessor may have been educated at Ely between  1005 and 1010. "The teaching of grammar continued in the cloisters [of Ely] and this tradition was the forerunner of the Cathedral Grammar School, today known as The King's School Ely". Needham's Charity School was founded in 1740 in Back Hill by Mrs Catherine Needham 'for the education, clothing and apprenticement of poor children'. There were originally 24 free scholars aged 9 to 14 years of age.' The Needham's School relocated to a new building in Downham Road adjacent to Ely High School in 1969. The old building is now part of King's Ely. The National School for boys was located in Silver Street. There was a National School for Girls in Market Street. Both National Schools received bursaries from the Parson's Charity. The Broad Street School was erected in 1858. In later years the Silver Street and Broad Street schools operated as St Mary's Junior School. The Ely High School for Girls opened in 1905 in St. Mary's Street, moving to the Downham Road site in 1957.