Lindfield Rugby Club

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Full nameLindfield Rugby Club
Nickname(s)Soldiers
Founded1919;104 years ago (1919)
Location East Lindfield, Sydney
Ground(s)Soldiers Memorial Park,
Tryon Road, East Lindfield
PresidentRaef Johnson
League(s) NSWSRU
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Official website
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The Lindfield Rugby Club is an Australian rugby union football club in Sydney. The club's home ground is in the suburb of East Lindfield. Lindfield competes in the NSWSRU competition. [1] The Lindfield Juniors Rugby club is also one of the largest for junior players in Australia. [2]

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History

The Lindfield Rugby Club was founded in 1919 by soldiers returning from the first world war. [3] The club played in local rugby competitions before being admitted to the Metropolitan Sub-Districts Rugby Union in 1948 and winning the minor premiership in that year. [2]

Lindfield remained in first division for most of the next five decades, being relegated once for the 1987 season before returning to the top level for another eight seasons until 1995. [2] The club then spent most of the next twenty years in lower divisions, aside from two seasons in first division for 2009 and 2010. [2] Lindfield finally secured promotion to the top level again for 2016, [1] but the club was found to have breached amateur status a few weeks before the end of the season and was prohibited from playing for the remainder of the year before being relegated to second division for 2017. [4]

International players

The first Lindfield player to be selected for Australia in international rugby was Bruce Taafe in 1969. [2] [5] More recently, players including Wallabies Stirling Mortlock, Andrew Blades, and Cameron Blades and Canadian international Evan Olmstead have been Lindfield club members. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Club History". Lindfield Rugby. Archived from the original on 16 December 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Metcalfe, Caryn (14 August 2014). "Lindfield Rugby Club celebrates 95 years with Back to Lindfield Day". North Shore Times. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Suburban rugby union club, Lindfield, kicked out of competition for cheating". The Daily Telegraph. 9 August 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Rodríguez, Enrique (2015). Rugby: The Art of Scrummaging: A History, a Manual and a Law Dissertation on the Rugby Scrum. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. p. 64. ISBN   978-1-78255059-4 . Retrieved 4 January 2016.
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