Worksop College recently published a new webpage to encourage people to apply for rugby scholarships (wsnl.co.uk/college/rugby). One key thing missing from this page however, is a list of representative players – something that has never been produced. However, I am gradually getting round to documenting this rather long list. Records were kept a lot more diligently in the years before technology and as a result, documenting the early successes in this area was quite straightforward.
A few things to note:
- Where a player is listed more than once (i.e. he played representative rugby in more than one season), on his final mention his other representative honours will also be listed (i.e. club, country etc)
- The Northern/Midlands/Southern Public Schools XV were pretty much the equivalent to the current schools regional setup
- The England/Scotland Public Schools XV was pretty much equivalent to the current England/Scotland schools teams up until the 1950s
- Worksop College were pretty good at rugby in the old days!
1921 – 1950
| Season | Name | Schoolboy teams | Post-schoolboy teams/other |
| 1928/1929 | G.Laing | Northern Public Schools | Blackheath, Army |
| 1929/1930 | G.C.V. Knowlson | England Public Schools | |
| 1930/1931 | W.P. Heath | Northern Public Schools, England Public Schools | |
| D.R. McLennan | Scotland Public Schools, Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1932/1933 | F. Martin | England Public Schools, Northern Public Schools | Oxford University |
| G.H. Stephens | Northern Public Schools | ||
| H.D. Venables | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1934/1935 | W.R. Andrews | Scottish Public Schools, Northern Public Schools | |
| K. Hall | Northern Public Schools | Cambridge University | |
| 1935/1936 | R.S. Stephens | Northern Public Schools | |
| H.F. Barker | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1936/1937 | H.F. Barker | England Public Schools, Northern Public Schools | |
| 1937/1938 | H.F. Barker | England Public Schools, Northern Public Schools | |
| D. Collinge | Northern Public Schools | ||
| J.S. Pinkney | Northern Public Schools | ||
| P.E.F. Rhodes | Northern Public Schools | ||
| J.B.C Teale | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1938/1939 | E.D.W. Paul | Northern Public Schools | |
| J.S. Pinkney | Scotland Public Schools, Northern Public Schools | ||
| A.L. Evans | Northern Public Schools | ||
| P.E.F. Rhodes | Northern Public Schools | Leicester | |
| A.J.A. Ferguson | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1939/1940 | A.L. Evans | Northern Public Schools | Cambridge University, The Army, England |
| R.W.J. Naismith | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1940/1941 | G.C. Buchanan | Northern Public Schools | |
| P.T. Francis | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1941/1942 | H.D. Jennison | The Rest Vs Home Counties | |
| T.A.S. Anderson | Northern Public Schools | ||
| P. Carmichael | Northern Public Schools | ||
| 1942/1943 | N.M. Hall | Northern Public Schools (Captain), Midland Public Schools | Army (Captain), St Mary’s Hospital, Richmond, England (Captain) |
| C.H. Ewart | Northern Public Schools, Midland Public Schools | ||
| W.G. Briggs | Northern Public Schools | ||
| E.R. Holliday | Northern Public Schools | ||
| J.M. Taylor | Northern Public Schools | ||
| T. Bennett | Northern Public Schools | ||
| D.W. Hardy | Northern Public Schools |