The Drummoyne District Rugby Football Club is a

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club based in

Drummoyne, New South Wales Drummoyne is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Drummoyne is six kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative center for the local government area of the City of ...

, in Sydney, Australia. Its predecessor Glebe and Balmain Rugby Clubs are among the oldest in Australia and today it competes prominently in the First Division of the

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History

According to its website, the Drummoyne DRFC traces its origins to the very foundations of

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, with its predecessor Balmain Rugby Club formed in 1873, and winning the newly formed

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's first competition in 1875. In neighbouring Glebe, another rugby club was founded in 1889 and these two clubs formed the foundation of Drummoyne. The Glebe-Balmain Club was established in 1919 and decided to change its name to the Drummoyne District Rugby Football Club in 1931. The club has produced many representative players, the first Rugby Union team to leave Australian shores for an overseas tour, the historic 1882 NSW team to NZ, included 3 players from the Balmain Club: M.H.Howard, R.W.Thallon and C.Hawkins. In 1909-10 Bill McKell, later to become Australia's Governor General, played on the wing for Balmain and the very first Wallaby Captain, Dr.H.Moran of the 1908 Australian side, served as Balmain's president in 1911-12.

Honours

Sydney Premiership

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: (2) 1925, 1936

Division 1 Championships

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: (8) 1947, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2020. * Division 1 Club Championship - Bruce Graham Shield: (3) 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2020. * Burke Cup: (2) 2000, 2004 and 2019 * Whiddon Cup: (3) 2001, 2015, 2017 * Sutherland Cup: (1) 2010

Division 2 Championships

* Barraclough Cup: (1) 1999 * Stockdale Cup: (1) 1999

Division 3 Championships

* Division 3 Club Championship - Keith 'Doc' Harris Shield (1) 1997 * Clark Cup: (1) 1997 * Nicholson Cup: (1) 1997

Division 4 Championships

* McLean Cup: (1) 1996 * Grose Cup: (1) 1996

Colours and home ground

Drummoyne's club colours are red, black and yellow and its home ground is

Drummoyne Oval Drummoyne Oval is a multi-use sports ground in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Drummoyne, New South Wales. The ground has been used for international women's cricket matches, domestic men's cricket matches and first grade rugby league as well as ...

. The club fields junior and senior teams and a women's sevens rugby side.

International representatives

* Steve Williams * Douglas Keller * Greg Davis * Alan Cardy * Eric Ford * Jack Ford * Arthur McGill * John Freedman * Ian Moutray * Lewis 'Taff' Williams

References

External links

* {{NSWSRU, state=expanded