Macadam Cup

"The Macadam Cup" banner from the 2008 competition

Tom AbouNader, KCLSU Vice-President Participation & Development, and Mihir Shah, captain of KCLMS Men's Hockey first team, lift the Macadam Cup after KCLMS won the 2008 competition.

The Macadam Cup is a varsity match played between the sports teams of King's College London proper (KCL) and King's College London Medical School (KCLMS).

The championship is named in honor of Sir Ivison Macadam, graduate of King's. Macadam also gave his name to a building at the King's Strand Campus, the site of many activities of the Students' Union (King's College London Students' Union).

The cup was first instituted in 2004 after an election pledge by the incoming President of the Students' Union, Michael Champion. The motivation behind the competition was not entirely focused on sports; Champion enjoyed large backing from the Health schools and in a time where the political will of the College was to rebrand Guy's King's and St. Thomas's (GKT) to KCLMS, Champion saw the event as an opportunity to enshrine GKT identity through the vehicle of a sporting event. The ulterior motive of the Macadam Cup was designed to make it increasingly difficult for Champion's successors to merge the GKT sports teams with the KCL ones.

As Champion's year in office progressed it looked less likely that the Competition would materialise; funds for extraordinary ventures like this were not available and with the exception of the Vice-President (Student Activities), Ben Philip, Champion did not enjoy the support from his fellow Executive Board members.

When few thought the competition would go ahead, Champion found a dusty old St. Thomas's Rowing Club champagne bowl, took it to Asprey and Garrard on New Bond Street and got it restored to its former glory for £1000. He had inscribed on the bowl: "Vicant Optimi" or "The best shall win". The shortfall in funds was provided by the King's College London Alumni Association, and so, in its first year, the Cup was called "The Alumni Macadam Cup".

Results

Year	Date held	Winner	Events won by KCL	Events won by KCLMS
2004	8 March	GKT	4	10
2005	22 March	GKT	3	17
2006	15 March	KCLMS	9	18
2007	21 March	KCLMS	5	7
2008	27 February	KCLMS	4	8
2009	25 March	KCLMS	6	9
2010	31 March	KCLMS	7	10
2011	30 March	KCL	7	6
2012	28 March	KCLMS	6	11

As you can see from its inauguration in 2004 to 2010, King's College London had yet to win the Macadam Cup, leading to chants of "You'll never win Macadam"

In 2011, KCL won the Macadam Cup.

See also

• King's College London
• King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU)

External references

• King's College London
• King's College London Students' Union