Newbury R.F.C.

Newbury R.F.C.
Newbury
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Club information
Full name Newbury Rugby Football Club
Website newburyrfc.co.uk
Colours Light Blue and Dark Blue
Founded 1928
Current details
Ground(s) Monks Lane
Competition National League 3 South West

Newbury Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club representing Newbury. For season 2011/12 they will be playing in National League 3 South West.

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Current standings

Newbury RFC are a community rugby club using players drawn from the local community and those coaches through its own youth rugby program.

History

The club was founded in 1928 due to the efforts of Len Whittaker who left St. Bartholomews Grammar School in 1924. The first game played by the newly formed club took place on 15 September 1928 against Midlands team, Stoke RFC. This was the first of 23 games that season during which the Club won 13 matches and lost 10. Even throughout the early years of the Club, the standard of play encouraged such major sides as Northampton, Gloucester, Harlequins and Wasps to come and play against Newbury.

The clubs home ground

In 1932 the Club found a permanent home where they stayed until 1952 at which time the Club moved to Pinchington Lane to the south of the town. It was not until 1958 that a Clubhouse could be built on the site which was less than a mile from the present headquarters at Monks Lane where they have 5 pitches, of which three are fully floodlit. The 1938/39 season saw Newbury unofficially crowned by the local press as "Champions of Berkshire". The first game to be played after the War was on 13th. April 1946. Despite the inauspicious date, the Club won 37 - 0 against Windsor.

Since that time, the Club has gone from strength to strength winning honours both regionally and at County level. A continuing policy of youth development has meant that many of our players have progressed from Junior to Senior level with the club. More recently, other Newbury players have gone on to greater heights with clubs such as Gloucester and Bedford. Today, Newbury Rugby Club, which is sponsored by locally based Jokers' Masquerade[1], fields 18 teams from First XV to Under 7s, including the recently formed Women's team.

Youth Teams

Newbury RFC has a reputation for having one of the best youth sections in the country, sponsored by local solicitors Thomas Eggar, the youth section has several hundred members and several high calibre coaches. A close link between the professional and amateur sections of the club is a proud tradition at Monks Lane and the youth section is no exception to this, the first team squad often help out with training as do the professional coaches at Monks Lane. Newbury teams often win at a high level and no section displays this clearer than the youth section, often winning at county level and who have represented Newbury at Twickenham stadium.

References

  1. ^ http://www.joke.co.uk/content/news/4#nrfc

External links

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