5. Feet up Northumbria
A rugby union night turned foul when new recruits were forced to go through a number of humiliating rituals.
As well as dropping their trousers and being made to do press ups, Northumbria University freshers also to suspend their feet up in the air until they finished their drinks.
6. Nude rugby with a live chicken
David Elstone from the HMC committee was one of the voices calling an end to ritual, arguing that someone ‘is going to get seriously ill and worse’.
In his argument against initiations, he referred to a shocking story from Edinburgh University where students played a naked game using a live chicken as the ball.
As The Telegraph reports: ‘He said one of his former pupils had given up playing rugby after he refused to play a game naked in Edinburgh city centre at midnight with a live chicken as the ball.’ It was organised by the University’s rugby club.