Bottle match

Bottle match

The Bottle Match is a varsity match played between the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) and the Royal School of Mines (RSM), Imperial College London. The first recorded match between the two sides took place on 16 December 1902, making it the second oldest rugby varsity match in the world.

The Bottle Match started as a rugby union match but as the schools sporting interests diversified other sports began to be played and from 2006 is now made up of six games played between the two institutions: men's rugby union, football, men's and women’s hockey, squash and golf.

The Bottle Match is traditionally held during the month of February normally on the last weekend of the month. Ancient rivalry between the RSM and CSM ensures that the competition gets fiercer by the year [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7431933.stm BBC News article on latest rivalry] ] .

Trophies

The winner of the Bottle trophy itself hinges entirely on the outcome of the rugby match. The winning team take home the 'Bottle', a 3-ft tall tin beer bottle adorned with the two crests of the institution, which was acquired in 1926 by a number of RSM students from the top of a Bass lorry. Since the 1950s, players on the winning side were presented with personal tankards from the South African based company Union Corporation/Gencor. This tradition continues with the tankards provided by Michael West and the Mining Journal.Ther is also a trophy awrded to the Man of the Match. The Centenary Bottle Match was held in Cornwall in 2002, with RSM being victorious, and Anton Griffiths from CSM winning the man of the match trophy.

The winners of the men's hockey take the Sharpley Cup, a silver sup presented by J.E. Sharpley, an RSM alumnus, in the 1950s.

The winners of the women's hockey take the Golders Cup, a small silver cup presented By Golder Associates the 1990s.

1946 44th Bottle

1999 97th Bottle, London

First RSM whitewash

2003 101st Bottle, London

2006 104th Bottle, Cornwall

See also

* Royal School of Mines
* Camborne School of Mines
* Rugby union in England

External links

* [http://www.csmss.co.uk/Bottle/ CSM Bottle match site] CSM's site about the Bottle Match.
* [http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rsm/bottle.php/ RSM Bottle match site] RSM's site about the Bottle Match.
* [http://www.uec.ac.uk/csm/ Camborne School of Mines] at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus.
* [http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rsm/ Royal School of Mines]

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