Lane Cove Rugby

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Lane Cove men began playing regularly at Tantallon Oval in 1949, and in 1950 the club entered a team in the Burke Cup, before amalgamating with Artarmon to form the Lane Cove-Artarmon team. The distinguished New South Wales rugby player and sports administrator J. Darvall-Hunt served as Lane Cove's first Club Patron, with P. Siccard as President.Judy Washington, LCRFU 50 Years – 1949–1999, Lane Cove Historical Society Inc. Newsletter No. 148, June 1999. Lane Cove Juniors began in 1951.{{cite web |url=http://lcjru.com.au/club.php?Club-History-14 |title=LCJRU |accessdate=8 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623002936/http://www.lcjru.com.au/club.php?Club-History-14 |archivedate=23 June 2011 }} The Club achieved notable successes in Sydney rugby through the 1950s and 1960s. Big name players of these early years included Wallabies Ken Yanz and Saxon White.Jack Pollard, Australian Rugby Union the Game and the Players, Angus & Robertson, 1984. Ken Yanz began playing in the original Lane Cove-Artarmon juniors in the 1940s and later played for Lane Cove in the Whiddon Cup and Burke Cup.Former Lane Cove Rugby Union Football Player Selected for Wallaby World Tour; The Advertiser; Thursday, 5 September 1957, Page 9. Later selected for Gordon Rugby Club, he became a long-standing player and captain for this Sydney Grade Club and was selected as a Wallaby in 1957. Lane Cove's juniors enjoyed strong success through the 1950s and their Under 21 side were New South Wales State Champions in 1958 after winning the North Harbour Competition and then defeating the winners of the South Harbour competition.The Golden Boys – Reunion of the 1958 State Champions, North Shore Times, 18 April 2008, p. 194

The New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union is affiliated to the New South Wales Rugby Union and runs the competition known as "Subbies" rugby, the major trophy for which is the Kentwell Cup, awarded to the first grade premiers of the first division competition. Lane Cove won the Whiddon Cup in 1965, Kentwell Cup in 1967 and 1968 and Judd Cup in 1968 and 1977.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rugby.net.au/extra.asp?id=5913&OrgID=7&menu=|title = NSW Suburban Rugby Union}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.rugby.net.au/extra.asp?id=5911&OrgID=7&menu=|title = NSW Suburban Rugby Union}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.rugby.net.au/extra.asp?id=5914&OrgID=7&menu=|title = NSW Suburban Rugby Union}} The Club won the Bruce Graham Shield as Division One Club Champions in 1968.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rugby.net.au/extra.asp?id=6411&OrgID=7&menu=|title = NSW Suburban Rugby Union}} Australian rugby league captain Johnny Raper assisted as coach of the 1977 Judd Cup winning side, whose players included advertising magnate John Singleton.Rugby League Week, 10 September 1977

The Club was prominent in Division One rugby through the 1950s and 1960s and competitive into the 1980s. The Club no longer competes in Division One, but won the Division Five Jeffrey Cup in 1982.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rugby.net.au/extra.asp?id=5944&OrgID=7&menu=|title = NSW Suburban Rugby Union}}

In 2006, the club won the Division 4 Club of the Year.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}

In 2011, the seniors fielded a team in Division Five of the New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union Competition.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rugby.net.au/extra.asp?id=6358&OrgID=7&menu=|title = NSW Suburban Rugby Union}} The Club now has a separately administered Juniors Club. The Juniors have won many competitions through the six decade history of Lane Cove Rugby. They participate in the Gordon Juniors competition, which is responsible for developing Junior Rugby in the Gordon District of Sydney's Northern Suburbs.{{cite web |url=http://gordonrugby.com.au/about-us/gordon-juniors |title=Gordon Rugby | Gordon Juniors |accessdate=8 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103025641/http://gordonrugby.com.au/about-us/gordon-juniors |archivedate=3 November 2011 }}

In 2012, former player Rob Sinclair commissioned an historical [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njApViAvMvY documentary] by Theo Clark Media, and a trophy cabinet was opened at The Longueville Sporting Club to celebrate the heritage of Lane Cove Rugby. LCRUFC's two Wallabies Saxon White and Ken Yanz, and Kangaroo Greg Florimo participated in the film and attended the launch.[https://issuu.com/rugbynews/docs/rugbynews.net.au Rugby News : Volume 26, Issue 16], Jim Davis, August 2012[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njApViAvMvY Lane Cove Rugby: How it all Began]; excerpt from It's A Jolly Good Story All The Same: The Story of Lane Cove Rugby; published on YouTube by Theo Clark Media

Lane Cove are part of the player pool for Gordon Rugby Football Club, a leading club in the New South Wales Grade Competition (Shute Shield).{{Cite web|url=http://north-shore-times.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/state-of-the-unionr-gordon-going-great/|title = North shore | News Local Newspapers North Shore Sydney | Local Community News NSW | Mosman Daily | North Shore Times | Daily Telegraph}} A number of Lane Cove players have played Grade rugby for Gordon.

The club colours are white, blue & gold.

For decades, the club was one of the rare rugby clubs that had a V design on the jersey. The blue and gold V on a white jersey was a Lane Cove trademark. The current jersey still uses the blue and gold V design.

Lane Cove Rugby shares an alliance with London club, Belsize Park Rugby Football Club. Belsize Park Rugby Football club was one of the founding clubs of the Rugby Football Union in 1871.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}

Players:

• Ken Yanz – Rugby union international (Wallaby).Jack Pollard, Australian Rugby Union the Game and the Players, Angus & Robertson, 1984.
• Saxon White – Rugby union international (Wallaby).{{Cite web|url=http://northern-district-times.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/players-launch-club-doco/|title = Hills shire times | Hills Shire Times | Daily Telegraph}}
• John Singleton (Australian entrepreneur){{Cite news | url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby/million-dollar-duds/story-e6frey4i-1111116101562 | title=Million dollar duds | author=Iain Payten|work=The Daily Telegraph |location=Australia|date=19 April 2008|accessdate=16 November 2011 }}
• Greg Florimo – Rugby league international (Kangaroo).{{Cite web|url=http://northern-district-times.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/players-launch-club-doco/|title = Hills shire times | Hills Shire Times | Daily Telegraph}}

Coaches:

• Johnny Raper, Rugby League International (Kangaroo).

• New South Wales Rugby Union
• Australian Rugby Union
• Rugby union in Australia

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• [https://archive.today/20130115020747/http://gordonrugby.com.au/news-blog/tartan-talk/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-a-jolly-good-story-all-the-same%E2%80%9D/ Launch of Lane Cove Rugby Documentary]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njApViAvMvY Lane Cove Rugby: How it all Started]; Theo Clark Media; published on YouTube.

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