K-Day: St Andrew's vs Kingswood
The city of schools, churches and lawyers comes boisterously alive when Kingswood march across to St Andrew's for K-Day, a day when young people run around the sports field to the noise of whistles and urgent shouts, and older people smile in friendly approval.
They have been doing it since 1898 when St Andrew's won, when Kingswood was just four years old. The bigger Anglican College, 39 years older, has mostly dominated the smaller Methodist school. In fact when Kingswood won in 2011, the sweet victory came after 17 successive defeats but in the last six years each school has won three times.
This year so far, St Andrew's has been performing better. They have lost just two of their 13 matches and are ranked 18th on the Schools Top 20. Early on they lost to Bishops and SACS but have been strong of late and include the scalps of Selborne and Grey High. In fact College, as they call themselves, were the first team to beat Grey this year.
Kingswood have lost half of their 14 matches and have yet to claim a noteworthy scalp this season.
Results against Common Opponents
Bishops: St Andrew's lost 29-21; Kingswood lost 16-13
Pearson: St Andrew's won 37-11; Kingswood won 12-7
Hudson Park: St Andrew's won 31-7; Kingswood lost 41-12
Union High: St Andrew's won 66-10; Kingswood won 36-15
St Andrew's are the hosts this year and the 1st XV match will be played on Lower, a field bought for College by Sir Jacob Barry in 1896, levelled at cost of £900 and first used for rugby in 1900. In a sense it is a field that has grown up with the rivalry between Kingswood and St Andrew's, a place much loved by Andreans, located between the chapel and the Old Andrean Club.
Date: Saturday, 17 June 2017
1st XV kick-off: 15.30
Venue: Lower Field, St Andrew's College
Expected weather conditions: Partly cloudy with a high of 20°C
Programme, 17 June 2017
Lower
08.30: Under-14A
09.30: Under-15A
10.30: Under-16A
11.45: 4th XV
13.00: 3rd XV
14.15: 2nd XV
15.30: 1st XV
Knowling 1
08.30: Under-16B
09.30: 6th XV vs Ukanyo
10.30: 5th XV vs Ntsika
11.45: Under-15B vs Ntaba Maria
13.00: Under-16C vs Ukanyo
Knowling 2
08.30: Under-14C vs Ntaba Maria
09.30: Under-15C vs Ntsika
10.30: Under-14B
11.45: 7th XV vs Nombulelo Under-17
Some Previous Results
2003: St Andrew's won 17-7
2004: St Andrew's won 12-9
2005: St Andrew's won 31-5
2006: St Andrew's won 22-12
2007: St Andrew's won 41-10
2008: St Andrew's won 8-6
2009: St Andrew's won 43-3
2010: St Andrew's won 43-15
2011: Kingswood won 23-22
2012: St Andrew's won 43-19
2013: St Andrew's won 46-23
2014: St Andrew's won 42-28
2015: Kingswood won 20-19
2016: Kingswood won 34-22
