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u18 Golden Lions preliminary teams

17 May, 2017 beet 175
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Oakdale Festival 2017 – team & players of the festival

6 April, 2017 beet 2
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SARU u17 Elite Squad 2016

27 October, 2016 beet 33

The initial SARU under 17 Elite Squad that were invited to attend a camp during the October 2016 school holidays. Amongst the names listed are numerous bright young prospects to keep an eye out for in 2017.…

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SA Schools & SA Schools “A” 2016 – international series

17 August, 2016 beet 406
DATE TIME TEAM TEAM VENUE
Fri.12Aug 13h00 France 23 18 England City Park Stadium, Cape Town
Fri.12Aug 14h30 SA Schools A 20 23 Italy City Park Stadium, Cape Town
Fri.12Aug 16h00 SA Schools 23 17 Wales City Park Stadium, Cape Town
Tue.16Aug 13h00 Wales  41 15 Italy Bishops, Cape Town
Tue.16Aug 14h30 SA Schools A  53 14 England Bishops, Cape Town
Tue.16Aug 16h00 SA Schools 42 3 France Bishops, Cape Town
Sat.20Aug 13h00 France 21 30 Italy Paarl Boys’ High, Paarl
Sat.20Aug 14h30 SA Schools A 17 18 Wales Paarl Boys’ High, Paarl
Sat.20Aug 16h00 SA Schools 13 12 England Paarl Boys’ High, Paarl
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SANIX 2015: Paul Roos’ progress

28 April, 2015 beet 62

Paul RoPRG150os, one of the favourites to top the national school rugby rankings in 2015, will be South Africa’s representatives at the SANIX tournament in Japan this year.…

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Bishops squad to take on 2 of EP’s finest

24 March, 2015 beet 29

Bishops has an extended stay over in Grahamstown this year. The Cape Town based school normally travels to the City of Saints every other year to compete in inter-schools against St Andrew’s College. This time around Bishops has agreed be part of the annual Graeme College Rugby Day as well and will be up against Port Elizabeth powerhouse, Grey High School in the main game of that event.…

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KZN / Natal Schools Craven Week teams of the 1990’s

4 September, 2014 beet 50

First of all I just want to say a big big thank you to Johan Snyman who updates the AffiesRugby.co.za website. Without his time and effort to retrieve the info and forward it, the database below would not have been possible.

If you have the first names of the players listed by just their initials, please forward it to beetb@telkomsa.net, so that the record can be completed. There is also a missing backline player’s name from 1997 as a result of a duplication. If you remember it, please post or forward it.…

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SA Schools Trials Squad 2014

22 July, 2014 beet 121

SARU has announced a squad of 55 school boy rugby players to attend the SA Schools trials on Saturday, 26 July at the Barnard Stadium in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.…

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KES Festival 2014 Squads

16 April, 2014 beet 0

The extremely popular KES festival squads as they appear in school’s beautiful 84-page festival programme:…

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Pukke Skouspel 2014 Team of the Tournament

16 April, 2014 beet 0

Better late than never. Here is the team of the tournament named after the conclusion of another excellent Pukke Skouspel 2014. Some big boys in there. And a few who are destined to go far in rugby. It would be quite something to watch this team up against against an SA Schools team later this year…

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Young Guns Varsity Cup squads 2014

24 February, 2014 beet 11

In an effort to get to grips with who is who in this year’s Young Guns competition, here is a start. An incomplete table containing many of the player’s names of six of the teams (Pukke & Wits missing) and where know, the schools they attended. …

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Varsity Cup Young Guns: University of Free State Kovsies squad

4 February, 2013 beet 10

The University of Free State Kovies under-20’s are busy with a series of warm-up games ahead of their very testing Varsity Cup Young Guns opening match against powerful defending champions Tuks from Pretoria University on 18 February 2013.  The Kovsies have assembled a nice array of talented students from across the country…

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Schools of the 2013 SA Super Rugby squad players

28 January, 2013 beet 72

Taking the South African Superugby wider squads for 2013 as they appear on Wikipedia, here is the long list of the 202 players with the schools that 197 of them attended. The 5 Kings foreigners are overlooked.…