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=== Rivalry with University College London ===
{{Main|King's College London–UCL rivalry|The London Varsity}}
[[File:UCL-KCL Varsity Rugby 2014.jpg|thumb|King's traditional rivalry with [[University College London|UCL]] is nowadays most noted at the yearly varsity rugby match]]

Competition within the [[University of London]] is most intense between King's and [[University College London]], the two oldest institutions. Indeed, the University of London when it was established has been described as "an umbrella organisation designed to disguise the rivalry between UCL and KCL."<ref name="Thompson7">Thompson (1990), p. 7</ref> In the early twentieth century, [[King's College London and UCL rivalry]] was centred on their respective [[mascot]]s.<ref name="varsity">{{cite web |url=http://www.thelondonvarsity.com/#/history/4541866243 |title=History – The London Varsity |publisher=[[The London Varsity]]|access-date=31 March 2013|archive-date=6 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806142429/http://thelondonvarsity.com/#/history/4541866243|url-status=usurped}}</ref> University College's was Phineas Maclino, a wooden [[tobacconist]]'s sign of a kilted Jacobite [[Scottish Highlands|Highlander]] purloined from outside a shop in [[Tottenham Court Road]] during the celebrations of the relief of [[Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal|Ladysmith]] in 1900. King's later addition was a giant beer bottle representing "bottled youth". In 1923 it was replaced by a new mascot to rival Phineas – Reggie the Lion, who made his debut at a King's–[[University College London|UCL]] sporting [[Student Rags|rag]] in December 1923, protected by a lifeguard of engineering students armed with T-squares. Thereafter, Reggie formed the centrepiece of annual [[fresher]]s' processions by King's students around [[Aldwych]] in which new students were typically flour bombed.<ref>{{cite web |title=The College mascots: Phineas and Reggie |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/mayhem/origins/mascots |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref>

Although riots between respective college students occurred in central London well into the 1950s, rivalry is now limited to the [[rugby union]] pitch and skulduggery over mascots, with the annual [[The London Varsity|London Varsity]] series culminating in the historic match between [[King's College Rugby Club|King's College London RFC]] and University College London RFC.<ref name="varsity" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unisportonline.co.uk/The-London-Varsity-LIVE/Sports-News/ |title=The London Varsity Live |date=29 February 2012 |publisher=UniSportOnline|access-date=31 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524071811/http://www.unisportonline.co.uk/The-London-Varsity-LIVE/Sports-News/|archive-date=24 May 2013 }}</ref>