News

News
27th November 2017 Comment off

Both Colquhoun Trophy titles successfully defended

Colquhoun Trophy (South West Schools Regional Tournament) Sherborne School, Dorset, November 26th For the second year running, history was made in the Colquhoun Trophy: a year after we saw the first player follow a Colts title with the Senior title, and the first boy from Sherborne win a title, in 2017’s event, for the first […]
Read more
News
20th November 2017 Comment off

New champions at the Ladies U23s

St. Paul’s School, Barnes Sunday, 19th November 2017 Bob Dolby reports:  This was just the second running of this championship, which this year attracted 17 contestants. Sadly, both last year’s Singles finalists, champion Tessa Mills and runner-up Shinan Zhang, were unable to play. We missed the quality they would have brought to the event but their absence gave others […]
Read more
News
20th November 2017 Comment off

Cambridge maintain their grip on Universities Fives

Marlborough College, Wiltshire Friday-Sunday, 17-19 November 2017 As largely expected Ed Kay and Matt Shaw contrived a clean sweep of Singles and Doubles titles at this year’s British Universities Rugby Fives Championships. In the Singles final Ed Kay beat last year’s Cambridge captain Ben Beltrami, now at London City Law School, as he had done […]
Read more
News
13th November 2017 Comment off

Eric Marsh (1940-2017)

The RFA is sad to report the death, at the age of 77, of Eric Marsh. One of a generation of leading Fives players to emerge from St. Dunstan’s College in the late 1950s, Eric was Amateur Singles Champion in 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963. He was three times runner-up: in 1959 to Jonathan Smith; in […]
Read more
News
6th November 2017 Comment off

Winchester retain the Schools’ Winchester Doubles title

Schools’ Winchester Fives Doubles Championship Winchester College, Sunday 5th November 2017 David Barnes reports: Ten pairs, the same number as last year, contested the sixteenth edition of the Schools’ Winchester Doubles. Marlborough and Radley each brought two pairs, and the rest of the entry came from St. Paul’s and Winchester. A last-minute gap in the […]
Read more
News
5th November 2017 Comment off

Draws for 2017 Student Championships

British Universities & Student Fives Championships Marlborough College, Wiltshire, Friday-Sunday November 17-19th The organisers have published the draws for the 2017 Student Championships – which can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate links below – and it looks like being a cracking tournament. Much will be expected of the Cambridge squad, which has had […]
Read more
News
30th October 2017 Comment off

Big Guns dominate the West of England Open

Clifton College, Bristol Saturday/Sunday, 28/29 October 2017 STOP PRESS: It was the same four players who figured in the last stages of the Singles and in the final of the Doubles: Will Ellison, Dan Grant, Ed Kay and Dan Tristao. As it was last year. But not entirely the same outcome. In the Singles Will […]
Read more
News
26th October 2017 Comment off

Entry form for the 2017 National Singles Championship

National Singles Championship Qualifying – various dates and locations. Finals: Manchester Y Club, December 2/3rd Charlie Brooks is now accepting entries for this year’s Jesters Club Cup, to crown the National Singles Champion 2017. As ever, there will be qualification events around the country – in Edinburgh, Manchester, Cambridge, Bristol and London – to decide […]
Read more
News
25th October 2017 Comment off

Denise Hall-Wilton (1943-2017)

October 2017 The RFA is sad to announce the death of Denise Hall-Wilton, following a short illness caused by a brain tumour. A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Denise Hall-Wilton was held in Bradfield College Chapel on Saturday, 10th March 2018. Many fives players and friends came to celebrate her life, recognising her immense contribution to […]
Read more