The Cambridge University Association Croquet Club is responsible for the health and growth of croquet at Cambridge and builds upon a long tradition of croquet in Cambridge. Apart from encouraging students to take up the game and sustaining their interest, CUACC organises the Cuppers Tournament for inter-College play and once a year produces a team to contest the Varisty Match against Oxford University Croquet Club.
CUACC is fortunate to have John Solomon as its Life President. He is arguably the greatest croquet player the game has ever produced. A past President of the Croquet Association, his natural modesty does not stop us from describing his extraordinary achievements as a croquet player.
Winning the British Men’s Championship in 1951 he went on to dominate the sport nationally and internationally winning no less than a total of 48 Championships (British Open 10 times, British Men’s 10 times, British President’s Cup 9 times, British open Doubles 10 times, British Mixed Doubles once, New Zealand Open twice, New Zealand Open Doubles twice, and the British Champion of Champions 4 times (The only occasions that it has been played).
From 1952 on he was involved in a final in British Open Championship week in every year except 1957, when he did not enter, until 1971. In 1964 he completed a three-ball triple in the British Open Championship, and, in the 1972 British Open Doubles Championship, with his partner absent, he elected to play the best of three match single handed and succeeded in winning, 2 – 0, peeling his partner ball through all 12 hoops on both occasions.
CUACC is fortunate to have John Solomon as its Life President. He is arguably the greatest croquet player the game has ever produced. A past President of the Croquet Association, his natural modesty does not stop us from describing his extraordinary achievements as a croquet player.
Winning the British Men’s Championship in 1951 he went on to dominate the sport nationally and internationally winning no less than a total of 48 Championships (British Open 10 times, British Men’s 10 times, British President’s Cup 9 times, British open Doubles 10 times, British Mixed Doubles once, New Zealand Open twice, New Zealand Open Doubles twice, and the British Champion of Champions 4 times (The only occasions that it has been played).
From 1952 on he was involved in a final in British Open Championship week in every year except 1957, when he did not enter, until 1971. In 1964 he completed a three-ball triple in the British Open Championship, and, in the 1972 British Open Doubles Championship, with his partner absent, he elected to play the best of three match single handed and succeeded in winning, 2 – 0, peeling his partner ball through all 12 hoops on both occasions.