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Graeme Rugby Day 2015

23 March, 2015 beet 24

Place: Graeme College in Grahamstown
Date: Saturday, 28 March 2015

School School
Union 0 8 Cambridge
Muir 0 26 Hudson Park
Queen’s 41 7 Pearson
Selborne 45 12 Brandwag
Kingswood 28 31 Marlow
St Andrew’s 33 20 Nico Malan
Graeme 0 27 Dale
Grey HS 24 15 Bishops
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Boishaai plays Framesby at Porterville

18 March, 2015 beet 8

Paarl Boys High’s under-19A will come up against Port Elizabeth’s Framesby this Saturday evening in the main rugby match of the festival at Porterville. Earlier in the evening, the Boishaai under-19B’s play Boland’s Schoonspruit. …

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Keep an eye out for Pearson in 2015

8 March, 2015 beet 9

Port Elizabeth high school Pearson might have something to offer by way of competitiveness when they take on local rivals this season. Most of their 1st XV that did duty in 2014 is back for this season’s action.…

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Grahamstown private schools at odds with EPCD over K-Day

1 March, 2015 beet 4

There is a BIG problem in EPCD. Two of their main schools Kingswood and St Andrew’s, both privates based in Grahamstown have placed their own annual inter-schools meeting above the region’s Craven Week preparations on the rugby priority list.…

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Dale College strengthened by arrival of 3 Potch High players

27 January, 2015 beet 91

An article with the header “New Kids on the Block” appearing in the recent edition of regional newspaper The Bulge added warmth to the welcoming function attended by three new Dalians Solomon Makhubela (Leopards Craven Week 2014), Oratile Mabusela (Leopards Craven Week 2014) and Thabiso Msiza (Leopards Craven Week 2014) in King William’s Town.…

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Selborne announces their new headmaster

22 January, 2015 beet 25

Ahead of what’s expected to be a cracker of a rugby season for Selborne comes the news that Andrew Dewar will replace now retired principal Sam Gunn who has provided the East London school with 21 years of unbelievable service. Interestingly Andrew Dewar is the deputy headmaster at Queen’s College just like Mr Gunn was before he joined Selborne back in 1993.…

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Daniel Pienaar’s SA Schools prop off to New Zealand

20 January, 2015 beet 5

Prop Lupumlo Mguca who was one of only eight under-17 players to have represented the SA Schools team in under-18 internationals last year, is jetting off to New Zealand to attend Burnside, a co-ed high school in Christchurch, home to the Crusaders Super Rugby team.…

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Southdowns’ turn to lose a top player

2 January, 2015 beet 2

Little private school Southdowns, who play in the Beeld Trofee competition for small schools, has built up a bit of a reputation over the last few years for “acquiring” top school players from prominent Border high schools. Now it’s their turn to experience what it’s like to lose a promising youngster.

Kwezi Mafu, a highly rated loose-forward who represented the Blue Bulls under-16 team at Grant Khomo Week in 2013 and in 2014, has left Southdowns College in Centurion, Pretoria to join Grey High School in Port Elizabeth.…

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St Andrew’s loss is Graeme College’s gain

19 October, 2014 beet 10

St Andrew’s College of Grahamstown is in the process of finding a new Director of Rugby. The reason for this is that Old Selbornian Allan Miles, their head of rugby for the past five seasons has decided not to renew his contract. He will instead be follow a different career path by take up a full-time teaching post and senior housemaster position at neighbouring Graeme College, starting in 2015.…

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Marlow book their place in Die Burger final

26 August, 2014 beet 4

Home team Marlow caused an upset by beating Outeniqua 17-10 in their Die Burger Large Schools semi-final. This is a reversal of the  2013 result when Marlow lost to the 18-6 to Kwaggas in George in the same competition. By beating Outeniqua (SWD) in their semi-final clash this afternoon, Marlow (EP) assured themselves a home final.

The finals of the 2014 Die Burger Rugby Competition for High Schools will be played on Saturday August 30 at Cradock.…

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Match report: Queen’s beats Dale 35-33

26 August, 2014 beet 8

Queen’s College First XV Match Report versus Dale College by John Duncan, Queen’s Head of Rugby.

Queen’s College and Dale College did battle against one another, in an FNB Classic Clash, on Saturday the 23rd of August in Queenstown. The 173rd match between these, proud Border Schools,’ proved to be a game of two halves and a tightly contested affair.…

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Queen’s vs Dale: derby no. 173

19 August, 2014 beet 63

The Victoria Recreation Ground, home of Queen’s College is where the 173rd game between Queen’s and Dale will take place. The closeness of the 123-year-old rivalry is told in the head-to-head where Queen’s hold a narrow 80-76 (16 draws) lead.

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Match Report: Queen’s beats Cambridge 34-7

18 August, 2014 beet 0

By John Duncan – Queen’s College Head of Rugby

Queen’s College travelled to East London to do battle against Cambridge in East London. The hosts, who have had an impressive run, would have fancied their chances against Queen’s but it was not to be in this tightly contested affair.…

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Die Burger Trophy 2014 – Large Schools

11 August, 2014 beet 22

Die Burger still seems to be struggling to establish itself as a knock-out tournament of significance.

The concept for this small Cape coastal belt competition is borrowed from the highly successful Noordvaal Beeldtrofee (formerly Administrators’ Cup) and is therefore a good one.…

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Eastern Cape decider: Selborne vs Grey High

11 August, 2014 beet 38

The Eastern Cape school rugby season has been building up towards this huge intercity clash almost since Day 1. Selborne of East London and Grey High School of Port Elizabeth, the top two teams in the province will battle it out for top honours on Saturday, 16 August 2014.…

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Queen’s win the Queenstown derby

11 August, 2014 beet 5

By John Duncan

On Saturday the 9th of May, Queen’s College and Hangklip Hoerskool, clashed for the 50th game between these two schools which saw Queeen’s College win the local derby 61-7.…

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Dale to wear pink for cancer awareness

7 August, 2014 beet 63

“Once again and for the third successive year Dale College First Rugby XV will wear their Pink Strip of Pink jerseys and shorts to highlight the disease of Cancer when Dale College and a formidable Selborne College play the 189th game against each other in King William’s Town. This history of rugby rivalry goes back to 1892! Dale’s sort after motivating Pink Strip is only worn by Dale once a year at present. The initiative and motivation behind Pink Day at Dale and playing in Pink strip to highlight Cancer is still possibly a first for any South African schools”…

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Match report: Kingswood beats Graeme 27-26

4 August, 2014 beet 1

Kingswood broke their derby day hoodoo with a determined victory over Graeme College, in a pulsating fixture on Somerset Field. Kingswood came back from a 19-8 deficit to clinch the game at the death.…

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Is the Border RFU hurting school rugby in their region

22 July, 2014 beet 15

Since the problems being experienced by the Border Rugby Football Union have been put forward as a good reason for top school rugby players kids from schools in the region wanting to jump ship (with consent of their parents / guardians off course), I wanted to explore this. Can the problems at the Rugby Union rightfully be blamed for any sort of exodus or is this just a convenient excuse being used?…

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Selborne vs Dale

19 June, 2014 beet 81

With Queen’s a little off the pace in 2014, it’s been left to regional powerhouses Selborne and Dale to battle it out for the Border title in 2014. Selborne will be the favourites but Dale can’t be underestimated. The boys from King put up a huge challenge against a good Grey High 1st XV in Port Elizabeth a fortnight ago.…

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Match Report: St Andrews beats Kingswood 42-28

16 June, 2014 beet 5

By Jon Leiper (Kingswood)

Kingswood and St Andrews once again served up a thriller on City Lords in their annual derby match. Both sides committed themselves to playing positive, attacking rugby, and this resulted in a match that was full of thrilling moments. In a game very much of two halves, ultimately it was College who won the match, 42-28. However this score line did not truly reflect the events on the field.…

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K-DAY! Kingswood vs St Andrew’s

11 June, 2014 beet 9

Two of the finest private schools in South Africa go head to head on Saturday 14 June 2014 in Grahamstown. Kingswood College (founded in 1894) takes on St Andrew’s College (founded in 1855) in one of the biggest and the oldest derbies in schoolboy rugby in South Africa. The event is known as K-Day…

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Dale faces a tough challenge against Grey in PE

4 June, 2014 beet 55

Dale College will make a 250km trip from King Williams Town to Grey High in Port Elizabeth for this weekend’s big Eastern Cape clash. As things stand Selborne, Dale and Grey  are the three teams battling it out for Eastern Cape top honours this year.…

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St Andrew’s College place academics ahead of Craven Week

29 May, 2014 beet 23

When the Eastern Province Craven Week team was announced earlier this month, it came as a huge surprise to see that not a single St Andrew’s College player had been selected. St Andrew’s has been a force to be reckoned with in their region and this year again, just like in many of the past few seasons they are aiming to finished first in EPCD. The clash with examinations is the reason for their boys being withdrawn from the EPCD trials. …

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Grey High vs Wynberg on Reunion Day

22 May, 2014 beet 32

Grey PE, the school that came from 26-0 down to beat Paul Roos, the current no.2 ranked team in SA, by a single point in one of the most memorable games of the season, looked all set to claim a national top 5 position back in April. But what happened to them?…

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Match report: Dale beats Queens 13-12

18 May, 2014 beet 18

Dale and Queen’s met at the graveyard in King on Saturday in the first of their two annual derbies. Both schools had come off good wins in previous games but Queen’s had certainly made the bigger impression by beating a good Grey High. It was however Dale who had shown the better and more consistent form this season and were therefore labelled as favourites.…