BSPC Kings of the Sevens
in association with Radio Borders
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Teams from all over the Scottish Borders as well as Berwick from Northumberland compete in the Border League.
The League has two pools. This year's draws, dates and results can be found at www.bordersrugby.net
For more about the Clubs, visit the Club's website:
Berwick RFC
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Gala RFC
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Haddington RFC
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Hawick RFC
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Jed-Forest RFC
www.jedforestrfc.com
Kelso RFC
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Langholm RFC
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Melrose RFC
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Peebles RFC
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Selkirk RFC
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Border League Committee:
President, Jim Wood (Langholm)
Secretary, John Thorburn (Hawick)
Treasurer, Norman Anderson (Kelso)
The Border League
Radio Borders Border League
"All Border League clubs are delighted to have available a BSPC Kings of the Sevens in association with Radio Borders website which will allow all clubs the opportunity to promote their own tournaments to a wider audience. This concept will only enhance the success of the current tournaments and will also allow the Border League clubs the opportunity to attract additional sponsors or corporate hospitality guests.
The Border League is very proud of its sevens heritage and traditions and this initiative will help everyone associated raise awareness of the history of everyone's sevens tournaments.
Finally, the Border League are extremely grateful to Scottish Borders Council for all their assistance in promoting this venture. Also, to Border Marketing Company in Galashiels for their efforts in designing an excellent website and also to our Border League sponsors, Radio Borders, for their continued association with all Kings of the Sevens tournaments. Along with the new website, we are also grateful to Border Solicitors Property Centre (BSPC) for their sponsorship of the 2010 Kings of the Sevens in association with Radio Borders.
I would like to wish everyone much success at their forthcoming tournaments."
Jim Wood, President
The early days of rugby in the Borders - Gala at Mossilee around 1900
John Jardine's winning goal kick for Jed-forest against Hawick at Riverside Park in 1913-1914
History of the Border League
The five Border rugby clubs who banded together to form the first competitive rugby league in the world had already been setting about each other for many years before they took their historic decision.
With strong links and even stronger rivalry well established they were able to blend their irregular games into a competition that became one of the longest lasting and most intense in Scottish amateur sport.
The founding fathers probably didn't know, and equally probably would have not cared very much, that they were creating a league which was not only the first in the rugby world, but the third oldest rugby union competition of any kind.
Only the Calcutta Cup, first played in 1879, and the University Match, first played in 1872, are older than the competition which was put together in the Borders in 1901-2.
The Border League now in its second century still bears an uncanny resemblance to the shape it bore when it emerged from the first years of uncertainty. The League still nourishes the links between the Border clubs, enjoys a robust social life, and provides the framework for the game to flourish in the South country - all objectives which the founding fathers would, if they could, applaud today.
An excerpt from "The Border League Story" by Laing Speirs
One Hundred Years of the World's Oldest Rugby League
(Available from Laing Speirs, Telephone 01835 823768.)
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