The latest edition of Exon magazine is now available to read online.
The 27th edition of Exon focusses on sport, from grass roots to elite competition.
The magazine features news of Exeter’s sporting achievements from the last academic year, including Cuppers wins for both the men’s and women’s rugby teams. It also shares Exeter’s exciting plans to redevelop its sports grounds.
Two significant anniversaries are celebrated: 70 years since Sir Roger Bannister (1946, Physiological Sciences) broke the four-minute mile, and 200 years since Exeter College Boat Club was founded.
The magazine features four pages covering Sir Roger’s feat, the commemorations that occurred in May, and Sir Roger’s legacy. But it also shares the story of Jack Lovelock (1931, Medicine), the first Exonian to break the world record for the mile, who went on to win gold at the 1936 Olympics.
Marking 200 years of Exeter’s Boat Club, this edition of Exon includes articles on the Club’s history, its fortunes on the river in its bicentenary year, and the remarkable pipeline of rowers progressing from Exeter’s to Oxford’s Boat Club.
There are alumni contributions from the CEO of the British Olympic Association, Andy Anson (1983, Mathematics), the Chair of UK sports charity Chance to Shine, Tim Score (1979, Modern History), and the outgoing Chair of the MCC, Bruce Carnegie-Brown (1978, English). Sports events organiser Rachel Dulai (1986, Music) gives a different perspective on what it takes to succeed, and Matt Tiller (1991, Modern History) shines a light on the first black man selected to play football for England.
Student contributions include the sacrifices required to become an elite athlete (and coping with failure), using engineering to predict football outcomes, confronting prejudice as a pole fitness enthusiast, gender verification at the Paris Games, constructing sporting viewing experiences, and an analysis of JRR Tolkien’s first published poem – a marvellous mock-epic tale of a school rugby match.
Read all this and more in the latest Exon, here.
