Oakthorpe Invitational Rugby Football Club, or ‘Oakthorpe‘ to it’s friends,  is an invitational rugby club based in Oxfordshire, founded by a group of Rugby enthusiasts hailing from various  academic institutions amid the partisan climate of the summer of 2006.
Originally an amateur club playing in barefoot, Oakthorpe made the transition to professional stud based rugby in 2009, playing other professional sides and entering tournaments in both the 15-a-side and the 7-a-side forms of the game.
In keeping with the nomadic and rapscallion nature of the club, Oakthorpe has no official locational base; in the early days the matches were played anywhere from the outfield of cricket pitches to collegiate quadrangles and Thames-side flood plains. The spiritual homes of the club, however, must surely be the St Edwards KFC Bucket Bowl and the neighbouring Keble College Silk Cocoon Cocoon.
Oakthorpe have recently experienced what management, players and fans are calling a new golden age, winning the North Oxford Invitational Classic Series (2009, 2010), Griffen Sevens Plate (2010), The Public Schools’ Old Boys Sevens Plate (2010) and The Abingdon RFC Sevens Shield (2010).
Regardless of the successes and the changes of the recent renaissance,  the club and its players never depart from the elusive ‘Spirit of Oakthorpe’. If you have to ask what it is, you probably won’t get it.

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