How rugby is played at Wynberg:
We like to run the ball but are not afraid to use the boot when we are under pressure. We do not over-coach a set structure and focus on using fast backs to get us moving forward.

A brief history of Rugby at Wynberg:
Wynberg Boys’ High, one of the two oldest schools in South Africa, has been playing rugby for over a century. Wynberg was largely a soccer playing school in the early days, but it introduced rugby in 1867. This possibly makes the Wynberg Rugby club the oldest schoolboy rugby club in the country, though records from the early years are sketchy. We do know that SACS, the only older school in South Africa, has been playing the oval-ball game since 1873, while it appears that Bishops began playing in the 1880s, after playing Winchester Football, a round-ball game, from 1861. St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown is reputed to have played its first game of rugby in 1855, but there is no formal report on a rugby match at the school until 1868. When the Western Province Schools Rugby Union was established in 1905 the first chairman was Mr Hoogenhout of Wynberg staff. Hoogenhout, an old Matie, revived rugby which had been superseded by soccer.

With the game in South Africa in its infancy, Wynberg soon made its mark on the rugby scene at an administrative level. The School provided the first Chairman of the Western Province Schools’ Rugby Union – one Mr Hoogenhout. Other leading lights from Wynberg who held positions in Western Province Schools Rugby were P de V Wahl, Eric Tasker and Ray Connellan. Ray Connellan is also widely credited with being the founder of the Cape Schools Rugby Week.

Wynberg has produced thirteen rugby Springboks over the years, famously providing four in the same team – Doug Hopwood, Dave Stewart, Lionel Wilson and Doug Holton in the 1960/61 side that toured Great Britain and Ireland. Rob Louw, who played in a Seventies and Eighties, and Robbie Fleck, who spent his formative years at Wynberg before finishing his schooling at Bishops, are the most recent Wynberg Old Boys to pull on the green and gold jersey.

We also provided a player in the very first South African Schools side, O Cawood in 1974, and another in the most recent – Sikhumbuzo Notshe, who played SA Schools in both 2010 and 2011.

Recent Achievements

WP reps:
Z Ndiki (2009);
S Notshe (2010, 2011); Captain WP Craven Week 2011
K Goss (WP Academy 2009);
Z Malunga (WP Academy 2010).

SA reps:
K Goss (SA Academy 2009);
S Notshe (SA Schools 2010, 2011)
D Kannemeyer (SA Academy 2011)

Sharks reps:
K Goss (2010);

Top 20 schools 2009

Fixtures

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Results

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Annual Tournaments:
• Wynberg Rugby Festival
• U16A 7-a –Side Tournament
• Villagers Sevens

Annual Tours:
• Easter Festivals (Gauteng)
• Cape Schools’ Week

Practice days:
Seniors – Tuesdays and Thursdays 15:00-17:00
Juniors – Mondays 15:00-17:00 and Wednesdays 13:30-15:30

Match days:
Saturdays

Dress for players at practice:
collared rugby jersey and rugby shorts – No T shirts or casual shorts

Dress for players at matches:
Wynberg rugby jersey, blue Wynberg socks. White shorts

After a match, players are required to change into full school uniform or into the school tracksuit

Recent Rugby News

• Wynberg Rugby Roundup – 24 August 2011
• Villagers Sevens Rugby Tournament 2011
• Wynberg Rugby Roundup – 31 August 2011
• Term 3 Newsletter – September 2011
• Wynberg Sports awards 2011
• Prefects 2012
• Wynberg Rugby in Ireland
• Wynberg Rugby Festival 2012