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16th October 2017 Comment off

West of England Championship 2017: details for entry

West of England Championships Clifton College, Bristol; October 28/29th PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF ORGANISER Organiser Ollie Arnold is now accepting entries for the West of England Open Championships. There is a dedicated website, where players can enter the competition and where the draws will be published in due course. The competitions will be played over the weekend of […]
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16th October 2017 Comment off

Cambridge ‘Cuppers’ unites the two fives codes

Cambridge, 14th October 2017 Ever inventive — last year it was Mixed Cuppers — the Cambridge University Rugby Fives Club this year organised a Joint Mixed Cuppers with their male and female friends in the CU Eton Fives Club, playing the event across both codes. Captain Matt Shaw reports :  Saturday October 14th marked the […]
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10th October 2017 Comment off

BUSF Student Championships: entry form and details

British Universities & Student Fives Championships Marlborough College, Wiltshire, Friday-Sunday November 17-19th The organisers have now published the official entry form for the 2017 Student Championships, and it can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. 2017 Student Championships entry form [PDF, 208KB] —————————————– This follows on from the publication of preliminary information for […]
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1st October 2017 Comment off

Wykehamists win the Owers Trophy

The Owers Trophy St. Paul’s School, Barnes, Saturday, September 30th 2017 After a week in which the number of expected entrants once rose as high as 10, in the end, seven teams took the courts at St Paul’s for the annual Owers Trophy event for teams of Old Boys. And, the first shock was that […]
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17th September 2017 Comment off

Entries being accepted for Owers Trophy

The Owers Trophy Saturday, September 30th 2017 St. Paul’s School, Barnes Organiser Alex Smith is now accepting entries for this year’s Owers Trophy tournament for teams of old boys (and girls!). And, with the great success of the three-person format in the last two years, he is continuing with that system this year and hoping […]
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13th September 2017 Comment off

Entries being accepted for 2017 Yorkshire Open

Yorkshire Open Fives Tournament Giggleswick School, October 14/15th Organiser John Hawke is now accepting entries for the Yorkshire Open Fives tournament. After the success of recent events in Giggleswick, which included a singles championship alongside the well-established doubles event, the 2017 tournament will again feature both singles and doubles championships. However, in contrast to most other Fives […]
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13th September 2017 Comment off

Report from the 2017 London Open

LONDON OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS St Paul’s School, Barnes, 9/10th September 2017 Organiser Will Ellison writes: The 23rd London Open was held at St Paul’s School and, this year, there were several new champions’ names to be etched onto the trophies. Ed Kay backed up his win in the South-East Open semi-final against Will Ellison to win […]
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2nd September 2017 Comment off

America discovers Fives!

The Rugby Fives Association September 2017 First it was Timbo Gonzalez, the 25 year-old from the Bronx with a claim to being the world’s best one-wall handball player, who came to the UK earlier in the year and was filmed experiencing the game of Eton Fives on the hallowed steps of Eton College Chapel. But […]
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