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===Rivalry with King's College London===
[[File:UCL-KCL Varsity Rugby 2014.jpg|thumb|A UCL player attacks in his team's 2014 Varsity victory. UCL's traditional rivalry with King's College is nowadays most noticeable at the annual [[The London Varsity|varsity rugby game]].]]
{{main|King's College London–UCL rivalry}}

UCL has a long-running, mostly friendly rivalry with [[King's College London]], but there were frequent clashes in the interwar period which have historically been known as "rags".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/rag/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040810173356/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/rag/ |archive-date=10 August 2004 |title=Mayhem in the Metropolis: King's College versus University College in Student Rags |publisher=King's College London |access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref> UCL students have been referred to by students from King's as the "Godless Scum of Gower Street", in reference to a comment made at the founding of King's, which was based on Christian principles. UCL students in turn referred to King's as "Strand Polytechnic".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thetab.com/uk/london/2013/10/30/ucl-vs-kcl-10900|title=UCL Vs KCL|author=Freddie McNicholas|date=30 October 2013|work=[[The Tab]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thetab.com/uk/london/2020/03/04/ucls-better-than-strand-poly-and-heres-why-36301|title=All the reasons UCL's better than Strand Poly|author=Sophie Parker|date=4 March 2020|work=[[The Tab]]}}</ref>

In 1922 Phineas, the UCL mascot was kidnapped by King's students, leading to a pitched battle in the King's College quad as UCL students recovered their mascot.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-ucl-mascot-phineas-reco/122800057/|title=London students' battle|work=Evening Standard|via=Newspapers.com|date=4 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040814040018/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/rag/rag09.htm|title=The great rag of 1922|archive-date=14 August 2004|work=Mayhem in the Metropolis|publisher=King's College London Archives|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/rag/rag09.htm}}</ref> Shortly after this, King's adopted their own mascot – initially a large papier-mâché beer bottle, soon replaced by [[King's College London Students' Union#Mascot|Reggie the Lion]].<ref name="Mascotry is born"/> During the 1927 rag, Reggie was captured by UCL students and his body filled with rotten apples. During the same year, an attempt by King's students to capture Phineas led to the "Battle of Gower Street", caught on camera by [[Pathé News|British Pathé]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cdui03tP18 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/3Cdui03tP18 |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live |title=Battle Of Gower Street (1927) |date=13 April 2014 |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On another occasion, Reggie was castrated by UCL students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/rag/rag05.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040814040509/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/rag/rag05.htm |archive-date=14 August 2004 |title=Mayhem in the Metropolis: King's College versus University College in Student Rags |publisher=King's College London |access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref>

King's students stole the embalmed head of [[Jeremy Bentham]] in October 1975, only returning it after UCL paid a ransom to charity. The head is now kept in the UCL vaults.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/about-jeremy-bentham/auto-icon |title=Auto-Icon |date=17 May 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref>