Dundee HSFP

Dundee High Rugby

Full name	Dundee High School Former Pupils Rugby Football Club
Union	Scottish Rugby Union
Founded	1880
Location	Dundee, Scotland
Ground(s)	Mayfield Playing Fields
President	Gerry Tosh
Coach(es)	Ian Rankin
Captain(s)	(2009/2010) Richie Hawkins
League(s)	Premiership Division One
1st kit 2nd kit
Official website
www.dundeehsfprugby.org.uk

Dundee High Rugby are a rugby union team that play their home games at the Mayfield Playing Fields, Dundee, Scotland.

The team was founded in 1880 by former pupils of the High School of Dundee, and currently play in the Premiership Division One, having been promoted from Scottish Premiership Division Two as champions at the end of season 2008-2009.

Location

Satellite Navigation/Mapping Software users enter post code: DD4 7HS

The directions are to Mayfield Playing Fields. Directions to Dalnacraig are the same with the entrance to Dalnacraig being either the main gates to the Cricket Club 200 yards further down and on the other side of Arbroath Road towards town, or the small gate across the road from the sports centre.

Use the Google Maps link to get detailed directions from post code to post code.

Bus and limited car parking is available at Mayfield via the new entrance 100 yards further east along Arbroath Road.

From the North: Forfar Road (A929) to the traffic lights on the Kingsway (A972). Follow the Kingsway to the East (Left from the lights). At the next roundabout take Old Craigie Road(the 4th exit) all the way down until it joins the Arbroath Road (B959). Mayfield Sports Ground is facing you with the gate to the car/bus park 30 yards on the left.

From the West: A85 from Perth. Follow the Kingsway (A972) to the East. At the first roundabout AFTER the double roundabout (approx 5.25 miles from the start of the A972) take Old Craigie Road (the 4th exit) all the way down until it joins the Arbroath Road (B959). Mayfield Sports Ground is facing you with the gate to the car/bus park 30 yards on the left.

From the East: Follow the Arbroath Road (A92/B959) for approx. 2 miles from the Claypotts Junction. Mayfield Sports ground is on your left.

From the South: Tay Bridge (A92). Exit the bridge using the righthand slip road. From the roundabout follow East Dock Street (A92). Stay on the A92 (along Broughty Ferry Road and left at the lights up Greendykes Road). At the first roundabout, turn left up Craigie Avenue. Turn left at the junction with the Arbroath Road (B959) and Mayfield is less than half a mile along on your left.

For Maps showing Dundee High Rugby visit the club's website at http://www.dundeehsfprugby.org.uk/

History

Beginnings

No doubt inspired by Abertay's Louis Auldjo, Dundee's first international footballer, Dundee High School Former Pupils' Rugby Football Club was formed in 1880 by a group of schoolfriends and rugby afficioandos , David Hynd, David Hutchison and Tom Ferguson, the principals of the affectionately monikered "Maryfield Gang after the scrap of wasteland on which they would play after school". With no sport on the school curriculum in the 19th century, the boys passionately followed local teams Abertay and Red Cross and upon leaving school met in The Victoria coffee house on November 23, 1880 and decided to form their own team.

That meeting produced the first office bearers of the club:

1st XV

• Captain: David M Hutchison
• Sub-Captain and Secretary: Thomas C Ferguson
• Treasurer: David Hynd
• Committee: Herbert Bell, James Martin, David Robertson

2nd XV

• Captain: Alexander Hynd
• Sub-Captain: G. Stevenson
• Secretary: William Ross

For a full history of Dundee High Rugby visit the club's website at http://www.dundeehsfprugby.org.uk/

Notable former players

Scotland National Rugby Union Team

• Stewart Campbell (17 Caps)
• Alasdair Dickinson
• Iain Fullarton (6 Caps)
• Sean Lamont (35 Caps)
• David Leslie (31 Caps, Rugby World's Player of the Year 1984, 5 Nations Grand Slam winner)
• Shaun Longstaff (15 Caps)
• John Manson (1 Cap)
• Jon Petrie (35 Caps)
• George Ritchie (1 Cap, First ever DHSFP player to be capped in 1932)

British and Irish Lions

• Andy Nicol (23 Scotland Caps, European Cup 1997/98, World XV v NZ 1993)
• Chris Rea (13 Scotland Caps)
• Tom Smith (60 Scotland Caps)
• Rob Wainwright (34 Scotland Caps)

Others

• Frank Hadden, former Scotland coach.
• Jason Hewett - New Zealand National Rugby Union Team
• Jacob Rauluni - Fiji National Rugby Union Team
• Moses Rauluni - Fiji National Rugby Union Team
• Adam Russell - USA National Rugby Union Team

References

• Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)