Junior Rugby
This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s Junior Rugby news, interviews, reports, opinion and other content.
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 3 years agoSmith hat-trick stops Cardiff’s away run
BUCS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK Flanker Ben Smith scored a hat-trick as Loughborough University beat Cardiff 31-10 to return to the...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoCoverage ‘a double-edged sword’
SCHOOLSRUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK Millfield director of rugby and former Bath player John Mallett says his side have ‘overachieved’ so far...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoBUCS Super Rugby round-up: Met win at Kingsholm on epic Wednesday
Cardiff Met moved within a point of rivals Cardiff Uni at the top of the table as they edged Hartpury 26-25...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoSt. Joseph’s Festival Preview: Winter aims for the top as high-stakes festival gets underway
The famous St. Joseph’s College National Schools Rugby Festival gets underway tomorrow, and the hosts’ coach Rowland Winter has high hopes...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoChamps Trinity give Dulwich a 50-point mauling
SCHOOLS RUGBY By NICK POWELL The first round of the Schools Cup is now complete, with several exciting fixtures lined up...
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Schools / Universities
/ 3 years agoEngland U18s fight back for epic win
South Africa U18s ‘A’…………34, England U18s…………36 Rory Taylor’s last minute penalty gave England U18s a thrilling victory against South Africa U18s...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoSt Luke’s left Exeter with a proud legacy
CLUB OF THE WEEK EXETER UNIVERSITY BY BRENDAN GALLAGHER Founded: 1860 (as St Luke’s College) Colours: Green and white Director of...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoPearson: BUCS gave me perfect grounding
By BEN JAYCOCK London Irish’s Tom Pearson credits Cardiff Met University for getting him to where he is today – and...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoLathallan Rugby 7s returns for first time since 2019
A popular youth rugby tournament returned to one of the North-east’s top independent schools at the weekend for the first time...
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 4 years agoBrilliant Exeter win BUCS Championship
Durham….13 Exeter……14 Dafydd Jenkins late score ended Exeter’s six-year wait for BUCS Super Rugby Championship glory as they edged past Durham...
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Schools / Universities
/ 4 years agoExeter University Has a Track Record of Success
Luke Mehson, Richard Capstick, Jack Owlett, Tom Lawday… these are just a few of the players that have represented Exeter University...
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Features
/ 4 years agoGowerton: A conveyor belt of talent for Wales
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools AS YOU might expect in such a rugby-daft area many great...
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Features
/ 4 years agoLike so many schools, it took a Welshman to spur Plymouth
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BEFORE the mid-1970s Plymouth College, although competitive enough locally, had no...
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Features
/ 4 years agoLight Blues shone golden light upon the great game
Brendan Gallagher charts the rich history of 150 years of Cambridge University rugby As we nudge into 2022 it’s time to...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWomen make their mark at Cambridge as well
HQ heroines: Cambridge women’s team at Twickenahm in 2017 WOMEN’S rugby started to really blossom in the late 1980s. England played...
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Features
/ 4 years agoVarsity match was all important
CAMBRIDGE, Wales and Lions wing Rowe Harding –a future High Court judge – was a wonderfully acute and pithy observer of...
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Features
/ 4 years agoSupermen aplenty sculpted at Stowe
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools GIVEN that the ethos of Stowe and its founding father JF...
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Features
/ 4 years agoHastings was the star in school’s best XV
ONE of the great names of Stowe rugby is PRH Hastings – Peter Robin Hood – who after the war morphed...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoUK is ‘closing the divide with South African schools’ now
Schools roundup By BEN JAYCOCK MOUNT St Mary’s College head of rugby Dylan Campbell believes school rugby in the UK is...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoPoets, writers war heroes, all the King’s men
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools KING’S Canterbury, save for brief periods in their sporting history, can’t...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoA mop-top Gower rises from the past
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Star turn: King’s 1974-75 with David Gower fourth...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoAny rugby schools I have missed? Let me know now
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER AND finally for this year…a last call to our brilliant rugby playing schools out there. I’m calling...
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Features
/ 4 years agoMerchiston Castle have led from start
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools FEW schools in Scotland have a prouder rugby record than Merchiston...
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Features
/ 4 years agoLongest running schools rivalry of all
NOT the least of Merchiston’s claims to rugby is their participation in the world’s longest running fixture against great local rivals...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoKidney turned PBC into a powerhouse
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools LAST week it was Christian Brothers College Cork, this week it...
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Features
/ 4 years agoDonncha helped turn tide back CBC’s way
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools LIMERICK might be considered the modern-day heart of Munster Rugby, and...
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Features
/ 4 years agoGarrett led charge in Munster success
CBC Cork have a notable list of former internationals among their alumni but arguably their most influential rugby old boy was...
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Features
/ 4 years agoRugby was religion in the Douai sixth form
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools IT’S over 22 years since anybody laced up their boots and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoThe smoking priest fired up Crescent
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools CRESCENT College in Limerick – now styled Crescent Comprehensive – lies...
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Features
/ 4 years agoStellar cast of Scottish champions
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools STEWART’S Melville College in Edinburgh might not be among the oldest...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWatson’s production line is strong as ever
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Colts champions: George Watson’s U16s, winners of the Scottish Schools in...
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Features
/ 4 years agoNeath GS was hard as nails rugby melting pot
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools THERE was a time when the blue and gold of Neath...
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Features
/ 4 years agoCup specialists await their next golden era
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools CAMPBELL College Belfast have a fine record in the Ulster Schools...
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Features
/ 4 years agoAll in the genes for Lions star Pedlow
THE most versatile and colourful rugby player ever produced by CCB must surely be centre Cec Pedlow who won 30 Ireland...
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Features
/ 4 years agoJeeps one of many Rolls Royce players
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BEDFORD might not be the biggest of towns but is nonetheless...
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Features
/ 4 years agoHill’s rigid stance led to ‘great schism’
POSSIBLY the most notable Old Blue is George Rowland Hill, an influential rugby administrator in the game’s formative years and the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoHard to replicate those post-war halcyon days
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools RUGBY success at Christ’s Hospital School over the decades has been...
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Features
/ 4 years agoColeraine’s contribution is vast, on and off field
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Coleraine graduate: Ireland and Ulster wing Andrew Trimble Coleraine’s nine Ulster...
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Features
/ 4 years agoWooller and Williams put Rydal on the rugby map
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Modern talent: Sean Lonsdale is being nurtured by Exeter Chiefs NORTH...
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Features
/ 4 years agoStars of genius from school of diligence!
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools THE school motto of Fettes, the famous Edinburgh school, is –...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBig personalties, big performances
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools EASTBOURNE College might not always be a pre-eminent force in the...
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Features
/ 4 years agoFive tries and the chop for Lambert
ONE of the more remarkable Eastbourne College alumni was Danny Lambert, the England wing who got dropped after scoring five tries...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBridgend Grammar, where the Lions roam
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools WHEN assessing the rugby talent factories in Wales, Bridgend Grammar School...
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Features
/ 4 years agoScots’ brains trust restoring Uppingham’s former glory
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BACK in the dawn of rugby history Uppingham played their own...
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Features
/ 4 years agoBelvedere specialise in producing truly greats
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BELVEDERE College, like all Leinster schools, have always operated in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoNormanton ruled before the axe fell
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools NOT for the first time in this series we must sing...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoRugby’s Great Schools: Oundle was finishing school for Curry twins
Tom and Ben Curry are among the alumni to have learned their rugby at Oundle School
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Features
/ 4 years agoRugby’s Great Schools: Methody have led way from the start
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools We recently featured the considerable rugby achievements of Royal Belfast Academical...
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 4 years agoYoung Guns: Worcester Warriors wing/centre Jack Johnson
Premiership defences will have to watch out for much more than Ollie Lawrence in the Worcester backline with the towering force...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 4 years agoBrecon was a nursery for pioneering Welsh Lions
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools CHRIST College Brecon was one of the cradles of Welsh rugby,...
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