Claim: After scoring his career-best innings of 142* during the game against the Army at Oxford Herbert Hopkins would go on to win Blue in the Lord's Varsity Match.
Evidence: In June 1922, in a 15-run win for Oxford over the Army at Oxford, he scored what was to remain his career-best innings of 142*, though he made only one other half-century that season. In early July 1923 he hit 100* for Oxford against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's, and won his Blue when he appeared in the Varsity Match at the same venue a few days later, making 42 in a crushing innings-and-227-run triumph over Cambridge University.