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However inclusive the intended athletic scholarships scheme is, it is unlikely to reproduce some of the academic performances of past university sportsmen. Oxford cricketers in particular appear to have had a relaxed attitude to the system - H. D. G. Leveson Gower (1890s) recalled in his memoirs, published more than half a century later that "we were occasionally required to write an essay", while Scottish leg-spinner Ian Peebles's failure to return to Brasenose after taking a record 80 wickets in his freshman 1930 season was explained by his law tutor: "You obtained 1 per cent in one exam and were not quite so successful in the other."