Three friends who turned the Victorian parlour game of tiddlywinks into a competitive sport so they could represent their university have marked the 70th anniversary of their club. Bill Steen ...

The three Cambridge undergraduates instead established competitive rules for tiddlywinks, coined new terminology and designed club ties to bring a sporting edge to the traditional board game.

Three friends who helped start competitive tiddlywinks so they could represent Cambridge University at sport have marked the 70th anniversary of the prestigious institution’s tiddlywinks club.

(Left) Bill Steen and (right) Lawford Howells co-founded the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club with others in January 1955, with (centre) Peter Downes joining later Three friends who turned ...