Make no mistake, there was plenty of reminiscing at this event.

Stories from the old days flowed thick and fast as members of Pegasus Football Club held a farewell lunch and reunion at Pembroke College, Oxford.

With many of the players now in their eighties, they decided it was time to call it a day. The final get-together last month coincided with the club's diamond jubilee and what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder, Oxford academic Sir Harold Thompson.

At the lunch, former captain Ken Shearwood proposed a toast to Pegasus.

Afterwards, he and his fellow players gathered in the college grounds for a last picture together, taken by Oxford Mail photographer Damian Halliwell.

As we recalled (Memory Lane, June 16), Pegasus, a team of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates, enjoyed huge success and attracted thousands of fans in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

They twice won the FA Amateur Cup - 2-1 against Bishop Auckland in 1950-1 and 6-0 against Harwich & Parkeston in 1952-3.

Both games were played at Wembley, before crowds of 100,000.

Sir Harold started Pegasus in 1948, with the aim of putting university football on the map.

He and his wife coined the name Pegasus from the universities' mythological symbols - the centaur (a horse with a man's head) for Oxford and a falcon (hunting bird) for Cambridge.

The team captured the imagination of many people in Oxford and elsewhere, as the country recovered from the effects of six years at war.

Fifty-six people attended the lunch - 36 players and 20 wives and partners.

Of the players, 32 were old Blues, and 11 were from the Cup Final winning teams.

Organiser George Scanlan, who played for Pegasus from 1954-60, said: "It was a great occasion. We all had a good time looking back."

Any further memories of the wonderful Pegasus era to share with readers?