Mollison Cup

Front detail of the Interhouse Aggregate Athletics Challenge Cup or Miss Mollison’s Challenge Cup.

In 1942, there was a change in formatting the Special Prizes in the Annual Reports and the trophy was no longer referred to as Miss Mollison’s Challenge Cup (Athletics). It was still referred to thusly in the School magazines up until 1957, with the exception of a few years. The significance of, and reference to, Essie Mollison appears to have been lost from this date. Another anomaly is the engraving of Inter-House Aggregate . Houses were not introduced until 1964, so one can assume that this engraving was added no earlier than that year. Since Houses have been the foundation of the pastoral system, Gibson has been the most successful Athletics House with Woolcock, Griffith, and Lilley all sharing second place. As these successful Houses filled the surface of the cup, a pedestal was added to provide extra room for the engraving of the winning groups and to maintain the elegance of the trophy.