Maritzburg College Glenwood

This weekend’s featured Premier Interschools is the KwaZulu-Natal derby between Glenwood and Maritzburg College. Photo: Steve Haag/Gallo Images

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This weekend’s featured Premier Interschools is the KwaZulu-Natal derby between Glenwood and Maritzburg College.

Maritzburg College Glenwood

This weekend’s featured Premier Interschools is the KwaZulu-Natal derby between Glenwood and Maritzburg College. Photo: Steve Haag/Gallo Images

This weekend’s featured Premier Interschools is the KwaZulu-Natal derby between Glenwood and Maritzburg College at Colleges’ famous Goldstones field in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday, 13 August.

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Kick-off is at 14:00.

The first match between the two schools was played in 1921 at Glenwood, which was won 5-0 by Glenwood. College dominated the earlier exchanges from then and has their current winning margin thanks to great teams during the 50’s, 60’s 70’s and 80’s.

Since the late 90’s Glenwood has developed into a real rugby powerhouse and have been so dominant the last 10 years that College could only manage one win and 2 draws in the 16 matches played. They did not get to play in 2020 due to the pandemic, but did manage to play two matches in 2021, which resulted in in a win for each team away from home.

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The biggest victory recorded for College over Glenwood was 61-13 at College in 1995. While the biggest victory recorded for Glenwood over College was 57-12 at Kings Park in 2015.

Matches Played: 174

College: Won 110

Drawn: 17

Glenwood: Won 47

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Last 10 years results:

DateGWMC
2012/06/091616
2012/08/042727
2013/05/254440
2013/08/033315
2014/05/242714
2014/08/092120
2015/04/185712
2016/08/063326
2017/06/243417
2018/03/1070
2018/03/243712
2018/06/16410
2019/04/06157
2019/08/033625
2021/09/041220
2022/05/142322

Early season form looks to favor Glenwood once again, but form alone is not always the key to winning such fierce derbies. Passion and willpower sometimes get surprising results. College showed against Affies they have plenty of both and could upset the favourites Glenwood on the day.

Rugby at Maritzburg College

Results for 2022

DateOppForAgainst
2022/03/19St Charles457
2022/03/26Fichardpark637
2022/03/28Ligbron4713
2022/04/09Pretoria Boys High285
2022/04/14Michaelhouse3233
2022/04/16Bishops1031
2022/04/18Grey PE3627
2022/04/23DHS1438
2022/04/30HJS Paarl338
2022/05/02Helpmekaar1625
2022/05/07Northwood2921
2022/05/14Glenwood2223
2022/05/28Hilton1130
2022/06/04Kearsney3120
2022/06/11Westville BHS4226
2022/07/23Affies1229
2022/07/30Pretoria Boys High5026
2022/08/06KES3430

Maritzburg College is traditionally the dominant school rugby force in KwaZulu-Natal. The first recorded rugby match in the province of Natal took place in the Market Square of Pietermaritzburg in October 1870. The contestants were Maritzburg College (then known as Pietermaritzburg High School) and Hermansburg School. Played on a sun-baked, wheel-rutted, gravel surface, the contest lasted for more than three hours and ended in a victory, for the High School, by two goals to nil.

The arrival of James Mervyn “Skonk” Nicholson, as a master at Maritzburg College, signalled a revival in the school’s rugby fortunes. From 1948 he coached the First XV for 35 consecutive seasons, until 1982. In 1949 the First XV was unbeaten, as were 10 other teams of his, while a further 13 First XVs during that period lost only one match each.

List of Springboks

NoName
157Wally Clarkson
183Bill Payn
190Bertram Vanderplank
199Phil Nel
359Keith Oxlee
380Ormond Taylor
432Andy van der Watt
592Joel Stransky
648*Jeremy Thomson
713*Pieter Dixon
715Butch James
789Peter Grant
837*Craig Burden
867Jesse Kriel
926Ntuthukho Mchunu

Their latest contribution to the Springbok legacy is prop Ntuthukho Mchunu. Who debuted for the Boks against Wales on 9 July 2022 at the Free State Stadium.

In addition, several College Old Boys have represented other countries: Hubert Freakes and Geoff Appleford (England), Juan Grobler and Chad Erskine (United States), Brenton Catterall (Zimbabwe), Wim Visser (Italy), Frank Goedeke (Germany) and Andrew Binikos (Cyprus).

Rugby at Glenwood

Results for 2022

DateOppForAgainst
2022/03/12Northwood4219
2022/03/19Michaelhouse1710
2022/03/26Noordheuwel4733
2022/03/29Paarl Gim1764
2022/04/14Pretoria Boys High2712
2022/04/16Selborne1514
2022/04/18EG Jansen1017
2022/04/23Kearsney3110
2022/04/29Paul Roos2043
2022/05/02Affies1449
2022/05/07Westville BHS722
2022/05/14Maritzburg College2322
2022/05/21Clifton College2610
2022/06/04Hilton2829
2022/07/23Northwood5413
2022/07/30Welkom Gim4131

Rugby at Glenwood is the major sporting code. It is a sport that instills values such as integrity, sportsmanship, loyalty, discipline and hard work. Glenwood’s policy of participation in extra mural activities as well as the passion shown by the boys enables almost five hundred youngsters the opportunity of experiencing the ultimate team sport.

Glenwood fields 30 teams on a regular basis. This allows boys from all levels and ability to be part of this wonderful game. The sports department endeavors to provide games for all teams, this has allowed Glenwood to embark on tours out the province to play fixtures against some major rugby playing schools in South Africa such as Affies from Pretoria and Grey College from Bloemfontein.

The School represented South Africa at the Sanix Youth tournament in Japan in 2008 and 2016 and won top honours over both years by winning the finals.

List of Glenwood Springboks (Test Caps Only)

Debut YearPlayer
1921Wally Clarkson
1937Mauritz van den Berg
1938Roger Sherriff
1964Don Walton
1968Rodney Gould
1993John Allan
2014Warren Whiteley
2021Jaden Hendrikse

Glenwood can also be very proud of Warren Whiteley who was named the 58 Springbok captain for the 2017 test series against France, the first Glenwood old boy to have this honor bestowed upon him. Their latest contribution is scrumhalf Jaden Hendrikse who made his debut for South Africa off the bench against Argentina in Port Elizabeth on 14 August 2021.