Oxford University Company of Archers

Framed site

Welcome to the OUCofA web site. This is the no frames version which is generally less up to date than the main page - to get the latest information it's best to view the framed site with a decent browser. It's quite likely I'll phase these pages out quite soon as they don't get viewed very often and are a pain to keep updating as well as the other pages. If you think this is a bad idea, e-mail me and if I get enough requests to keep them I'll leave them here.

The pages have been split into four categories to make navigating the vast expanse of the site easier.

OUCofA members ("Members")
People who shoot against us ("Friends")
Other archers ("Everyone") - although even non-archers may find something of interest here
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New members interested in joining should see the info on where and when we shoot.

There are now two clubnewsletters for those of you who've lost the paper copy, didn't get on in the first place, or had no idea that there was a newsletter. All the information you could ever want to know about what's going on in the club this term.

Information for Members

...ex-members and wannabes. You'll find it all here.

Club info - All the details you need to join our fun club.

Social events - The exciting things we'll be up to in the near future.

Tournaments - The exciting places we'll be shooting in the near future.

Club Records - How well do you compare to the club's finest?

Mailing List - A list of our members, with links to their home pages.

The Virtual Trophy Cabinet - See what trophies we've won recently. (On another site.)

Minutes of the 1995 AGM - If you weren't there (or if you were, but, like me, seem unable to remember any of it), this is what went on.

Club History - meticulously researched by Dave Spence and stored on his site.

Vomitwatch OUCofA - Help us catch wanted chunderers.

Our newsgroup, ox.clubs.archery, but there's never anything in it. See How to read newsgroups, if you'd like to buck the trend and contribute something.

Information for Friends

If you shoot against us, know some of our members or are just curious, here's some stuff that you might find interesting.

Results - As well as full scores for OUCofA members, this page has full scores from any tournaments we've hosted and full team scores from any tournaments we've attended. There are also partial results from 96/97, 95/96 and 94/95.

For Sale - Currently 1 bow, 1 arrow rest and a couple of t-shirts.

Contact Addresses - write to us!

Directions to OUCofA - for those wishing to attend one of our tournaments.

The Varsity Match - our annual battle with Cambridge.

Oxford Pub Guide - more useful than the equipment reviews, because we know more about drinking than about archery.

The Quotes Book Online - Club members embarrass themselves.

Information for Everyone

Archery-related or otherwise, we've got lots of stuff here.

Photos - Embarassing photos from events throughout the year.

Equipment Reviews

Beginners' Mistakes - And how to avoid them.

The Home-Made Finger Sling - How to make one of your own.

Archery games - other sports and games altered to be playable with a bow and arrow. Some of them are good fun.

The OUCofA Bad Joke Page.

Robin Hood - The lyrics to the infamous song.

The Target Drinking Game - get drunk in an archery-esque fashion.

Links to other archery sites

Sagittarius - a links collection that looks absolutely gorgeous in a modern browser, but is still perfectly readable with Lynx. This in itself is such a rarity that the site deserves visiting (and learning from!), but they also have loads of links with ratings. Amazing.
The auld enemy: Cambridge University Bowmen
Our friends, Loughborough Students' Union Archery Club, who are currently doing a very good job of organizing the BUTTS tournaments, so be nice to them.
Brunel University's archery home page.
Exeter University Archery Club.
Southampton University Archery Club - impossible to navigate around without a frames-capable browser with image loading turned on, but Sagittarius give it 5/5 (hmph!) so there must be something going for it. The best feature I found was the explanation of archery terms (which I've provided a link straight to so you don't have to faff around with their frames).
GNAS has got itself a web site. An icky frames hierarchy, bits of java and an excess of animated GIFs make it an unpleasant site to visit (unless you have (a) a PentiumII or (b) half your browser's features turned off), but it does have lots of contact addresses. The most interesting pages are the tables of Indoor Rounds and Outdoor Imperial Rounds, which are the ones we shoot.
Angus Duggan's archery links page.
Archery on the Internet - the most comprehensive collection of archery links.
The newsgroups rec.sport.archery and alt.archery.

Just arrived :o)

A new webmaster. After Neale's stunning efforts in improving the web site over the last three years (or so he tells me) the task has been passed on to me. I'm Tim. er, hi. I'll update some more stuff apart from this bit when I think of something to do.

This site is maintained by Tim Smith. Complaints, praise, suggestions and doughnuts are welcome.