Independent Schools Play Rugby Together
The biennial Independent Schools Rugby Festival starts at Kingswood College in Grahamstown on Saturday, 23 June 2018.
There are altogether 20 matches – seven each on Saturday and Monday and six on Wednesday, 27 June 2018.
Kingswood were the first hosts of the Festival in 1983 and this will be their third time of hosting.
The Festival is old by the standards of this sort of get-together. The biennial Cape Schools Festival started in 1980, the annual Saints Easter Festival in 1984 with Easter Festivals at St John’s (1995), KES (2002), Krugersdorp High (2003) and Kearsney (2007) to follow.
The players taking part are Under-18.
The teams taking part come from various parts of the country.
Bloemfontein: St Andrew’s School
Cape Town: Bishops
Durban: Clifton, Kearsney (Botha’s Hill)
Grahamstown: Graeme, Kingswood, St Andrew’s
Johannesburg: St David’s, St John’s, St Stithians
Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands: Hilton, Michaelhouse
Port Elizabeth: Eeze Fana Academy of Kwazakhele
Pretoria: St Alban’s
Hilton are unbeaten; their match with Bishops could be particularly interesting.
Fixtures
Saturday, 23 June 2018
11.15: St David’s vs St Andrew’s High
12.30: Michaelhouse vs St Stithians
13.45: Clifton vs Eeze Fana Academy
15.00: St John’s vs Graeme
16.15: Hilton vs St Alban’s
17.30: St Andrew’s College vs Kearsney
18.45: Kingswood vs Bishops
Monday, 25 June 2018
11.15: Bishops vs Hilton
12.30: St John’s vs Eeze Fana Academy
13.45: Clifton vs St Andrew’s High
15.00: Graeme vs St Stithians
16.15: St Andrew’s College vs St David’s
17.30: St Alban’s vs Michaelhouse
18.45: Kingswood vs Kearsney
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Matches to be played at Knight Field Pool.
09.00: Eeze Fana Academy vs St Stithians
09.00: St Andrew’s High vs St Alban’s
10.15: Kearsney vs St John’s
10.15: St Andrew’s College vs Hilton
11.30: Kingswood vs Clifton
11.30: St David’s vs Michaelhouse
Hosts Down the Years
1983 Kingswood
1986 Hilton
1988 St Andrew’s College
1990 St Charles College
1992 St John’s College, Johannesburg
1994 Kingswood
1996 Bishops
1998 Woodridge
2000 Michaelhouse
2002 St Andrew’s High
2004 Uplands College
2006 Kearsney College
2008 St Benedict’s College
2010 Falcon College
2012 Penryn
2013 St Andrew’s High
2014 Michaelhouse
2016 Bishops
2018 Kingswood
