Press Releases
Soccer Madness Spreads To Robotics as UK Hosts First National Robot Football Championship
The first ever UK Robot Football Championship will take place at the University of Warwick, Coventry as universities high tech robot footballers come head to head, on April 5-6. England is internationally renowned for its world-class soccer teams, but few people know that the nation's robot side has got what it takes to win a European Championship.
Historian Reveals that Cromwellian Christmas Football Rebels Ran Riot
When the Puritans established themselves in power after the civil war, the new regime not only abolished Christmas but also banned sports deemed 'disorderly'. However, new research by historian Professor Bernard Capp from the University of Warwick reveals that Christmas Scrooge rebels responded to the bar on festive celebrations by playing football as a symbol of misrule, and that winter and Easter football riots were fairly common in the 17th century.
National Sprinting Star Marlon Devonish Launches New University Sports Complex and Art Collection
Coventry-born world-class athlete and Godiva Harriers star Marlon Devonish is to officially open new sports facilities and unveil paintings at the University of Warwick on Friday 31st October 2003, at 12.30pm following a £3 million refurbishment and extension of the Sports Centre, which now boasts even better facilities for the University and the local community.