Building on the progress made over the two previous campaigns, 1931/32 was the club's first outstanding season, with a record 21 wins from 28 games. Cliff Harrison was captain and Arthur Ogden his vice-captain for this and the following two years. Cliff was born in South Africa, but learned his rugby at Warwick School before joining Kenilworth and then Leamington as one of our founder members. He played at scrum-half but could also fill in at back-row.

We had a flying start to the season, scoring an unprecedented 96 points in the first three matches, including a record score of 51-6 against Old Centrals second XV. Only the powerful Old Wheatleyans got the better of us before Christmas, causing a loss and a draw, as we won the rest of the games. Club rivalries were now beginning to become established and this season saw the start of the traditional Boxing Day games against the Old Warwickians which were to become a regular feature of our fixture list until 1985. On this occasion the old boys defeated us 3-0, for our second loss of the season. The New Year began firswith an 11 match winning run and saw us play some splendid rugby. It included a double over Earlsdon who had always beaten us before. After the second game the Courier commented that "it was obvious to all that when the ball was in the backs there was only one team in it. They were Smith, Hooper, Flay, Parfitt, Rowland, Raby and Harrison. Leamington are one of the most successful sides in the Midlands". The rest of the team were Summerhayes, Ogden, Commander, Barnett, Gibbs, Davies, Kenchington, and Ellingham. Centre three-quarter David Parfitt (left) was the star of the side running in 24 tries in 20 games, a remarkable achievement in those days, when low scores were common. We were still attracting good players including John "Rabbit" Raby who became the regular fly-half and Tod Davies and R.G. Jones who were outstanding forwards. We were starting to attract the attention of the County selectors for Parfitt, Hooper, Jones, and Davies all played for the Warwickshire Colts XV

Unfortunately, what might have been an even better record was spoiled by the loss of the last four games, including a second defeat at the hands of Old Warwickians, but we also took on two difficult additional fixtures to end the season. The first of these was at the beginning of April when we caught the train to London to play against London Irish "A". This came about because we had in the club a colourful character who rejoiced in the ultimate double-barrelled name of Pat Koek-Koek. He had a girlfriend in Leamington and consequently played for us most weekends but he was also member of the Irish and he arranged the fixture. It was played on a dreadfully wet day and as this was before the days of track suits, our travelling reserve, Frank Rose, donned his kit, including his club jersey, to run the line. Following a long kick ahead by the Irish he was the first man to the touch mark and the referee thinking he was a player penalised him for offside. The Irish scored three points which settled the game in their favour by 6-5. The final game was to become the first of a series of matches against K. Gough's XV, an invitation side comprising four or five Coventry first team players and the best of the players from the junior clubs in Coventry. On this first occasion we lost an attractive game by 6-0.

1st XV 1931-32 A. Flay, Les Coles, Frank Rose, Tom Commander, J. Barnes, Frank Barnett - Paul Ellingham, H.J. Hooper, Arthur Ogden, Cliff. Harrison (captain), Lewis Rowland, David Parfitt. Todd Davies - Reggie Smith, John Raby

The second team drew 4 and won 9 of their matches, including their first Boxing Day game against Old Warwickians. This established the regular pattern of the second teams playing in the morning (and later the third teams as well) with the first teams playing in the afternoon. The second XV continued to play Warwick School and Leamington College as regular fixtures and in October they played the Old Collegians, who by the next time we met them, in April, had become the Old Leamingtonians.

The season's profit was just over £5 on a turnover of £72.