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TitleOld Cantabrigian Rugby Club
DescriptionThe Club was founded in 1946 by Old Boys of the then Cambridge and County High School for Boys, and for many years was an exclusively Old Boys club, the 'Old Cantabrigian Rugby Union Football Club'. This was not the first flowering of Old Boys rugby: the first recorded match involving an Old Boys took place in 1913. The Great War interrupted further development, but an Old Boys club was also active between 1923 and 1934. After WWII, the newly formed Old Cantabrigian RUFC played at various local grounds for the first few seasons, but in 1953 land was acquired for a pitch adjoining the School's playing fields in Cambridge, and a clubhouse was built later the same year. Cantabs remained an Old Boys club until the late 1960s, when a limited number of non-Old Boys were admitted to full membership. In 1974 the High School, like most Grammar Schools, was caught up in the educational reforms of the time, and became the co-educational Hills Road Sixth Form College. Player recruitment from the School fell significantly, and the Old Cantabrigians, in common with so many other Old Boys clubs, could fulfil their fixture list only by further extending non-Old Boy membership. As the years passed, the proportion of non-Old Boy members increased progressively until the Club became open to all, as it is today. In 1989 the Club dropped 'Old' from its title to better reflect its membership.
Date1971
CreatorNameCambridgeshire High School for Boys
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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