The earliest reference to the Stonyhurst Wanderers appears to be in 1883 when a Cricket XI toured Lancashire and played the College on the 30th July. A Wanderers team played annually henceforth for several years and a photograph exists of the Wanderers Cricket XI of 1885 which includes Arthur Conan Doyle. The cricket and rugby teams flourished in the late twenties and early thirties and were then revived post-war and continues today.