Queen’s College hosted Kingswood College, from Grahamstown, at The Recreation Ground. The match was played in overcast and windy conditions but this did not hamper the flow of the game as both teams attacked relentlessly for the entire match. The game produced eleven tries which had the crowd on the edge of their seats till the final whistle.…
From EP Rugby
Grahamstown schools St Andrew’s and Kingswood will be itching to get back into action this weekend when they open their schools rugby programmes after the first-term holidays.…
From Queen’s College
Queen’s College hosted Welkom Gimnasium at The Recreation Ground, on Friday the 24th of April, for the first time in the two schools’ history. The game was played in perfect conditions.…
From Queen’s College
A record number of teams from Queen’s College, in Queenstown, participated in various rugby festivals throughout the country over the Easter Holidays. The Queen’s College First XV and Queen’s College Junior U13A participated at the KES Easter Festival, whilst the U16A took part in the Jeppe Festival and the U15A and U14A teams took part at the Grey High School Festival in Port Elizabeth. All the teams performed admirably and managed to win all their fixtures against their various opponents.…
For a bit of fun I asked a number of the die-hard Eastern Cape supporters to pick their team of the day from this year’s Graeme Rugby Day, a festival that showcases many of the Eastern Cape’s most talented 1st XV players. Bishops were the invited guests and a couple of their players also grabbed the attention of the locals Here’s the team arrived at by combining everyone’s input:…
From Queen’s College
Queen’s College played against Pearson, at Graeme College Rugby Day, in Grahamstown this last weekend. The field was still wet underfoot after the previous week’s rain.…
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| Time | School | School | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08h00 | Union | 0 | 8 | Cambridge |
| 09h10 | Muir | 0 | 26 | Hudson Park |
| 10h20 | Queen’s | 41 | 7 | Pearson |
| 11h30 | Selborne | 45 | 12 | Brandwag |
| 12h40 | Kingswood | 28 | 31 | Marlow |
| 13h50 | St Andrew’s | 33 | 20 | Nico Malan |
| 15h00 | Graeme | 0 | 27 | Dale |
| 16h10 | Grey HS | 24 | 15 | Bishops |
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.…
From Queen’s College
Queen’s College started the season off with a tough encounter against Grens, from East London, at the annual Border Schools’ Rugby Day. The match was played in windy conditions at Selborne College.…
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 |
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. …
The annual Border Rugby Day is at Selborne College in East London on 21 March 2015…
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.…
Thank you to Eastern Cape school rugby supporter “Rugbyfan” for this blog about many of the leading contenders on the Eastern Cape scene:…
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.…
The DHS 1st XV enters the 2015 season minus two standout rugby players who have returned to the Eastern Cape.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
It might feel like a case of déjà vu for Grey High School in Port Elizabeth right now. They have learnt that they will be losing a second head coach to professional rugby in a little over a year. …
The St Andrew’s College of Grahamstown December 2014 newsletter named Andrew Royle as their new Director of Rugby. He replaces Graeme College bound Allan Miles who’s achievements were also highlighted in the same newsletter.…
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.…
Eastern Province has contracted 19 youngsters for their 2015 season.…
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.…
Marlow was crowned on Saturday as the champions of Die Burger Rugby Competition after beating Paarl Boys High 11-10 in a thrilling final.…
The finals of Die Burger Rugby Competition for High Schools will take place on Saturday 30 August at Cradock.
Programme:…
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.…
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.…
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.…
Former Queen’s College 1st XV head coach John Duncan has returned to head up the Queenstown school’s rugby programme after an almost two year absence. The well-respected rugby man resigned during November 2012 (link to blog here). …
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
“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”…
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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