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University of San Andrés The University of San Andrés ( es, Universidad de San Andrés) is a private university located in Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina on the shores of the Rio de la Plata, in the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires. It is a small institutio ...

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Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish ( masculine) or ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines ...

bilingual school in Olivos,

, Buenos Aires Province. Established in 1838 in downtown Buenos Aires, it is the oldest school of British origin in

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. The school offers

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and

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education and has a university founded in 1988. The school's campus is located in San Fernando,

Tigre Partido Tigre Partido is a '' partido'' of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, situated in the northern part of Greater Buenos Aires. The department covers a large section of the Paraná Delta and its low-lying islands. The main town of the division is ...

, inside the urban area known as

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History

The school was established in Argentina on September 1, 1838, by a group of Scottish immigrants who wanted to educate their children in their native language, culture and religion. At the beginning only girls were admitted, although the school accepted boys soon after. The first location of the school was in Piedras 55, in downtown

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. The institution was later moved to the neighbourhood of Constitución, where children from many nationalities attended. The chapel moved to the streets of Belgrano and Perú where it still remains. In 1882, Scotsman Alexander Watson Hutton (considered the father of

Argentine football Association football is the most popular sport in Argentina and part of the culture in the country. It is the one with the most players (2,658,811 total, 331,811 of which are registered and 2,327,000 unregistered; with 3,650 clubs and 37,161 offi ...

), arrived to

after being hired by St. Andrew's as headmaster. Hutton encouraged the teaching of sports at the school, which conflicted with the position of the authorities of not considering sports as important as he did. Due to his disagreeing with the policies of the establishment, Hutton resigned one year later. After leaving St. Andrew's, Hutton founded his own institution, the Buenos Aires English High School, where he applied his ideas on the teaching of sports in Argentina. In 1947, the school moved to Olivos,

, and in 1988 the institution opened the

. A new campus by Jeffrey J. Berk Arquitectos was inaugurated in 2018 with interior design by Rosan Bosch.

Sports

Football pioneers

In 1890 the college established " St. Andrew's Athletic Club", whose football team was formed by railway workers.La primera fecha!
by Jorge Gallego on CIHF, 16 Apr 2016 The sport had been introduced in Argentina in 1867, with St. Andrew's being one of the first clubs of the country. St. Andrew's won the first Primera División championship organised in 1891,"Desempates en el fútbol argentino: 1891–2008", Centro para la Investigación de la Historia del Fútbol (CIHF)
20 January 2009 by the Argentine Association Football League, the first football association in the country and predecessor of current

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. After winning the title (shared with Old Caledonians), St. Andrew's did not take part in official competitions until 1894, being dissolved soon after.

Present days

In 1911 the principal of the school, William Hardie, founded the

Club San Andrés Club San Andrés (official name: Asociación Ex-Alumnos San Andrés) is an Argentine sports club sited in the Benavídez district of Tigre Partido, Greater Buenos Aires. Sports practised at San Andrés include rugby union, field hockey and ass ...

, a

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that only admitted alumni and students. Sports currently practised at the club include

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field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...

and

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. Its rugby team plays at the Torneo de la URBA Grupo I, the first division in the league system of the

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. Today the school has many sports such as

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tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...

and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

.Educación Física: Programa de Estudios at School website
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