the english schools trophy is effectively the schoolboy f a cup, played for by about two hundred district teams throughout the country, and ending with a two legged final, at which oxford have appeared on four different occasions; the earliest back in nineteen o eight, and the most recent in nineteen seventy four, when unfortunately, as with all the previous three, we were defeated, on that occasion by manchester boys, yet er the home leg was played in front of a crowd of twelve thousand people, which was the highest recorded crowd at the manor that season.