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15th April 2018 Comment off

Dans Grant and Tristao win second National Doubles title

National Doubles Championship Alleyn’s School, Dulwich, Sat/Sun April 14/15th This year’s contest for the Cyriax Cup figured 18 pairs, with a predictably strong showing of Old Paulines and a significant contingent of  players from the Alleyn Old Boy Club, plus several with university status.  Clubs from the Scottish Caledonian Club to the Winchester-based Wessex Club […]
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10th April 2018 Comment off

Entries open for Scottish championships

SCOTTISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Loretto School, Musselburgh, May 5/6th Organiser Neil Roberts is now accepting entries for the Scottish Open Championships, which will be held at their traditional time, over the first May Bank Holiday weekend. The event – played using the Cliff ball – includes both singles and doubles championships, with plate competitions. However, as […]
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9th April 2018 Comment off

Beal & Hamilton are the Masters!

Marlborough College, Wiltshire Saturday, 7th April 2018 The President reports:  The courts at Marlborough were eerily quiet as ten members of the RFA Gerontocracy met to defy the accepted norms of geriatric sport by putting their minds and bodies on the line for the Masters’ Tournament (over 65s). The Organiser, David Bawtree, deftly took control […]
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7th April 2018 Comment off

Results from the National Schools Championships

St. Paul’s School, 3-6 April 2018 The organiser, Peter King, reports: The eccentricities of dates (Easter and school terms/holidays) seem to have affected the size (but not the quality) of this year’s entry, and just 100 competitors from 14 schools in all were included in the draws. There was, however, a very high standard of […]
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6th April 2018 Comment off

John Pretlove 1932-2018

The RFA is sad to report the death on Easter Sunday of John Pretlove, Alleyn Old Boy and multiple National Rugby Fives Champion. While at Alleyn’s John Pretlove won the Public Schools Singles, as it was then known, in 1950 and 1951, and the Doubles in 1951 with JST Fletcher. He represented Cambridge University in […]
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30th March 2018 Comment off

Entries open for National School Girls’ Tournament

National School Girls’ Fives Tournament Marlborough College, Wiltshire, Sunday 22nd April Organiser Alex Smith is now accepting entries for the 2018 National School Girls’ Tournament, which will be held at Marlborough College on Sunday 22nd April. The championships will include four age groups: Seniors (age 17 or younger), U16 (15 or younger), U14 (13 or […]
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28th March 2018 Comment off

RFA recruiting Rugby Fives Development Officer

RFA Development Officer Interviews in London, 25/26th April The RFA is looking to employ a Development Officer who can help to promote the game all over the country. The primary aims of the role – which is being advertised here and on LinkedIn – are to get more people playing Rugby Fives and to get […]
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