Oxford Cavaliers
- This article refers to the rugby league team. For the American football team, please see Oxford Cavaliers.
The Oxford Cavaliers rugby league team was one of the eight founder members of the Rugby League Conference. This league now has well over sixty teams across England and Wales.
The team is noteworthy as a pioneer of rugby league in the south of England. One of the reasons attributed to the expansion of RL since 1995 is due to the change in status of the regulations on "amateurism" for the nationally more popular code of rugby, rugby union. Since rugby union declared itself an "open" game in 1995 many amateur rugby union players are now able to play in both forms of rugby. Indeed Oxford Cavaliers are now at a rugby union club, Oxford Harlequins, with whom they enjoy good relations.
In their brief history Oxford Cavaliers have managed to supply players to professional clubs, such as Rob Castle to the London Skolars and Daryl Griffin to Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. They continue to be the only open Rugby League club in the city, although there is also an Oxford University Rugby League team that represents both Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University.
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