Sporting Events
ENSOC has a long history of successful sporting exploits.
- Marlowe Cup - an Inter University Faculty event unique in New Zealand. The competition involves a range of sporting pursuits between the University School of Engineering and Otago University Surveying Department (previously School of Mines, School of Technology) over a weekend and is held in each city on alternate years (Christchurch in odd years, Dunedin in even years). Since its inception in honour of Honorary Life Member Thomas Marlowe in 1955 the backbone of the competition has been a game of rugby union.
- Engineers XV - the oldest rugby team at the University, it competes in the local social grade and participates in the annual fixtures representing the School of Engineering (Marlowe Cup, Brockett Cup, Inter-Faculty Cup, Hocken Boot).
- Tug-o-war - held on the second to last day of lectures between various years and disciplines of engineering. It occurs across the nearby Okeover Stream (formerly known as "The Ditch").
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