Pegasus F C
Amateur cup tie
By Owen Welch
Pegasus F C team about to take the field to play Stevenage Town in the second round proper of the Amateur Cup 22 Jan 1955. Stevenage lost a very good game 5-2. In the previous Town had beaten another famous old team Corinthian-Casuals.
My step- father, Fred Taplin took this photograph, plus others, unbeknownst to me.
Pegasus were a nomadic team, having no home ground of their own and most of their games were friendlies, sometimes against visiting Amatuer International teams, all their competative games being in the Amatuer Cup, which they won on two occasions.
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Jim Skipper, the former sports teacher at Nobel, played for Pegasus, I believe but never spoke of it. I found his picture in an old football encyclopaedia in the library.
Pegasus were a side comprised of Oxford and Cambridge Universities best players, current and former students.
They were really amateur footballs last stand at fielding a credible side against professionals and for a short time in the early 50’s, it seemed to work. A good comparison would be the Barbarians in Rugby.
By the early 60’s, University life was changing and the gulf between Pegasus and their opponents widened and Oxbridge students shifted to playing for Corinthian Casuals instead, leaving Pegasus to fold in 1963
Pegasus were a crack amateur side of the early 1950s, and actually won the FA Amateur Cup twice. They comprised players who were also studying at either Oxford or Cambridge university. I saw Pegasus in both the finals, at Wembley, and still have a programme for one of the games. Hope this information is of interest.
Did Pegasus become a well known team?