THERE was no doubt which football team this group of well-dressed fans would be supporting.

Their mortar boards clearly give the game away.

But it wasn’t Headington United, the forerunner of the present day Oxford United, or Oxford City that they would be cheering on.

It was Pegasus, a team of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates, named after a mythical winged horse, who took the amateur game by storm in the 1950s.

The picture was taken outside the long-demolished Plumbers Arms pub in Speedwell Street, Oxford.

The bedecked group were on their way to Wembley to support their heroes in the FA Amateur Cup final at Wembley.

We are not sure of the date because Pegasus appeared in two Wembley finals in three years – in 1951 and 1953.

In 1951, they beat Bishop Auckland 2-1 and two years later, trounced Harwich & Parkeston 6-0.

Both games were played before crowds of 100,000, many of them from Oxford.

The picture was sent in by Jennie Fogden-Strange, whose parents, Ted and Myrtle Heath, were the licensees of the Plumbers Arms.

Ted, second from the left, is seen with fellow members of the Licensed Victuallers Association and friends, who were taking a day off to see the game.

Mrs Fogden-Strange, of Sandleigh Road, Wootton, near Abingdon, found this and other LVA pictures in her father’s belongings.

She has sent them in hoping they will interest Memory Lane readers. Look out for more LVA pictures shortly.

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