Season: 1965-1966

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Playing Highlights

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Mens 1st XV

The table below shows theresults for the season for the 1st XV. Over time I will try to capture lower XVs but it is a long job – so any help appreciated.

Sadly – very few actual results for this year and just an indication of W/L/D for most, if not all, of the games.

Date	Result	Hove Score	Opp Score	Location	Competition	Opponent
18/09/1965	Lost			Home	Friendly	London Scottish 'A'
25/09/1965	Won			Home	Friendly	Pinner
02/10/1965	Draw			Home	Friendly	Esher Abbots
09/10/1965	Won			Away	Friendly	Reigate
16/10/1965	Lost			Away	Friendly	Richmond 'A'
23/10/1965	Lost			Home	Friendly	Harlequins 'A'
30/10/1965	Lost			Away	Friendly	Brighton
06/11/1965	Won			Home	Friendly	Eastbourne
13/11/1965	Lost			Home	Friendly	Lewes
20/11/1965	Won			Away	Friendly	Hastings & Bexhill
27/11/1965	Won			Home	Friendly	Horsham
04/12/1965	Lost			Home	Friendly	Old Azurians
11/12/1965	Won			Home	Friendly	Chichester
18/12/1965	Cancelled			Away	Friendly	London Irish Wanderers
27/12/1965	Won			Home	Friendly	Brighton
01/01/1966	Lost			Home	Friendly	Rosslyn Park Stags
08/01/1966	Draw			Away	Friendly	University Vandals
15/01/1966	Cancelled			Away	Friendly	Crawley
22/01/1966	Cancelled			Away	Friendly	East Grinstead
29/01/1966	Lost			Home	Friendly	University Vandals
05/02/1966	Won			Away	Friendly	Haslemere
12/02/1966	Cancelled			Away	Friendly	Old Wimbledonians
19/02/1966	Won			Away	Friendly	Honourable Artillery Company
26/02/1966	Lost			Home	Friendly	Sussex University
05/03/1966	Won			Home	Friendly	Park House
12/03/1966	Lost	0	21	Away	Friendly	Kings College
19/03/1966	Won			Away	Friendly	Brighton Students
26/03/1966	Won			Home	Friendly	Havant
02/04/1966	Lost			Home	Friendly	Worthing
08/04/1966 (Good Friday)	Lost			Home	Friendly	?
09/04/1966 (Easter Sat)	Won			Home	Friendly	Old Leysians
11/04/1965 (Easter Monday)	Won			Home	Friendly	Old Wimbledonians
16/04/1965	Lost			Away	Friendly	Dorking
23/04/1965						Sussex Sevens
		Played			33
		Won			14
		Drawn			2
		Lost			13
		Result Not Known / Cancelled			4
		Home Games Played			19
		Away Games Played			14
		Highest Points For			0
		Lowest Points For			0
		Highest Points Against			21
		Lowest Points Against			21
		Highest Winning Margin			0
		Highest Losing Margin			21

Brighton Vs Hove

I reproduce below a match report from the Brighton & Hove Herald from December 1965 that reports on the fixture between Brighton and Hove (presumably at Horsdean). Also, a brief snippet from the second team game. My thanks to John Honeysett – Club Historian Brighton FC for this.

Brighton win the clash with Hove

Brighton entertained Hove in the local derby, and won convincingly by 17points (one goal, one try, one dropped goal, and two penalties) to 3 points, (one penalty).

The superiority was in the Brighton front row in the set pieces, where Holt and the new prop forward Powell combined well.

Hove opened the scoring after 25 minutes with a penalty well taken by JACKSON, their full-back, after the Brighton pack had been penalised for a scrum infringement. Five minutes later Brighton were awarded when a Hove player was pulled up for lying on the ball and PICKERING made no mistake with the kick

Shortly afterwards the Brighton three-quarters made a fine run for the line, only falling short when Watt’s pass was adjudged forward to Harbidge on the wing, so the sides turned around with the score at three all.

After resumption of play the Brighton pack pushed Hove on to the defensive and from a quick heel on the Hove 10-yard line, the ball went out to NICHOLLS who dropped a magnificent drop goal from 45 yards. From this moment the Hove side became somewhat became somewhat demoralised which enabled the Brighton three-quarters to capitalise on any mistakes that were made.

Midway through the second half, Brighton were again awarded a penalty for another scrum infringement which PICKERING converted.

The best movement of the afternoon developed from a set scrummage near the Hove line, when Brighton gained quick possession and the half back pair worked a dummy movement resulting in WATTS going over in the corner.

The final score of the afternoon was made by county centre WATTS who, from just inside the Hove half, kicked the ball forward, took the ball on with his feet, finally outran all the Hove defenders and scored near the posts. PICKERING made an easy conversion.

While the final score might suggest an easy win for Brighton this was by no means true.

Brighton “A” were narrowly defeated by Hove Yeoman by 8 points to 6 points. Hove scored twice in the first half, by means of a try and a goal, but Brighton fought back with tries by STRATTON and REDBOURNE ; unfortunately the conversions failed.

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Season Images

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Club Highlights

No new VPs or Honorary Life VPs this year but another one removed and so presumed passed – J.P. Sherwood.

D.J. Wilson takes over from K.M. Neal as Vice-Captain of the 1st XV; J.P. de l’Orme takes over Fixtures from E. Perry; Richard Lewis adds to his 1st XV Captaincy duties by becoming Team Secretary for the 1s. This is a new role – previously there was a joint Team Secretary for 1s and As but now this is split. The former joint Team Secretary – J.R. Bonner – continues for the As only.

J.P. de l’Orme continues as Team Secretary for the Yeomen.

In a similar move, the Team Secretary for the Bs loses responsibility for the “other” XVs and a new role of Team Secretary for Colts and Extra Bs is created.

R.D Burton takes over from Tim Ballard in the first instance and Geoff Schaverien takes on the new role. Peter. Larman takes over as ‘A’ Captain from D.H. Baldwin. Presumably R.D. Burton is promoted from last year’s ‘B’ Captain.

The “all change” continues with J. Bonner taking over as Vice-Captain of the A’s from S. Savery. The Yeomen are no exception to this clear out the old policy and they have a new pair of J.R. Williams and D.E. Stevens taking over from J.P. de l’Orme and R.D. Cahill respectively.

The Captaincy of the Bs sticks with R. Burton (who may or may not be the same person as the Team Secretary – who is labelled as R.D. Burton) but G.H.O Gordon is replaced as Vice-Captain Bs by D. Small.

Peter Larman takes over from Ian Stone as Assistant Secretary and K.M. Neal takes over from George Fawcett as Sussex County rep.

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President and Vice Presidents

Honour	Person	Comments
President	Alderman A.E. Brocke
Hon. Life Vice-President	J.H.R. Boreham
Hon. Life Vice-President	C.P. Lungley
Vice President	K.J.M. Abrahams
Vice President	R.F. Clark
Vice President	L.H. Cohen
Vice President	N.H. Copper
Vice President	Dr. J.P. Corr
Vice President	R.A. Edwards	Trustee
Vice President	R.C. Edwards
Vice President	J.H.L. Gordon
Vice President	B.J. Griffith
Vice President	G.H. Harrington
Vice President	Dr. N.W.A. Harvey
Vice President	G.E. Heath
Vice President	J.W.I. Jenkin
Vice President	J.B. Johnstone
Vice President	A.J. le M Lawrence
Vice President	W./Cdr. J Lawson C.B.E., R.A.F.
Vice President	Dr. P.C. Lewis
Vice President	A.L. Lucock
Vice President	E. Marchant F.R.I.C.S. F.A.I.
Vice President	Dr. C.F. McGuire	Trustee
Vice President	W.G. MacGregor	Trustee
Vice President	W.Q. McLarnon
Vice President	K.R. Neal
Vice President	J.T. Petrie
Vice President	R.N. Rothwell
Vice President	A.E. Russell
Vice President	M.G. Saunders
Vice President	P.E. Savery
Vice President	E.V.A. Scorer
Vice President	J. Shelton
Vice President	J. Smith
Vice President	T.G. Winckworth
Vice President	J.M. Woolley, M.B.E., T.D.

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Officers

Role	Person	Comments
Captain of 1st XV	R.J. Lewis
Vice-Captain of 1st XV	D.J. Wilson
Hon. General Secretary	P.J. Trantom
Hon. Treasurer	D.H. Baldwin
Hon. Fixture Secretary	J.P. de l'Orme
Hon. Team Secretary 1st XV	R.J. Lewis	New Role
Hon. Team Secretary 'A' XV	J.R. Bonner	New Role
Hon. Team Secretary 'The Yeomen' XV	J.P. de l'Orme	New Role
Hon. Team Secretary 'B' XV	R.D Burton	New Role
Hon. Team Secretary Colts XV and Extra 'B' XV	G.P Schaverien	New Role
Hon. House and Wine Secretary	F.A.W. Patching
Hon. Social Secretary	M.K. Stuart-Williams
Captain 'A' XV	P.D. Larman
Vice-Captain of 'A' XV	J. Bonner
Captain 'The Yeomen' VX	J.R. Williams
Vice-Captain 'The Yeomen' VX	D.E. Stevens
Captain 'B' XV	R. Burton
Vice-Captain of 'B' XV	D. Small
Hon. Assist Secretary	P.D.M. Larman
Hon. Assist Treasurer	G.H.O. Gordon
Hon. Schools Secretary	G.A. Fawcett
Hon. Press Officer	C.W. Wilson
Sussex County Representative	K.M. Neal
Hon. Auditor	S. Ohly F.C.A.
Hon. Medical Officer	Dr. F. Frazer

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Committee and Sub-Committee Structure

Person	General Committee	Finance & G/Purpose	Selection	House & Wine	Social	Schools
Dr. C.F. McGuire	Chairman		Yes
D.H. Baldwin	Yes	Yes
J.R. Bonner	Yes
T. Brown			Yes
R. Burton	Yes
R.D. Cahill	Yes				Yes
F. Douglas			Yes	Yes
G.A. Fawcett	Yes					Yes
Dr. G. Goff			Yes
G.H.O. Gordon	Yes	Yes
G.J.L. Gordon					Yes
J.H.L. Gordon				Yes
B.M. Gowan	Yes		Yes
T.W. Jacques					Yes
J.B. Johnstone	Yes		Yes
P.D.M. Larman	Yes	Yes
R.J. Lewis	Yes
C.P. Lungley			Yes
K.R. Neal	Yes		Yes
J.P. de l'Orme	Yes
F.A.W. Patching	Yes			Yes
E. Perry	Yes
G.P. Schaverian	Yes
J. Shelton	Yes		Yes
M.K. Stuart-Williams	Yes				Yes
P.J. Trantom	Yes
J.R. WIlliams	Yes
J.M. Woolley			Yes
Totals	20	3	10	3	4	1

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Annual General Meeting

We have no records for the AGM for this season – but if you do then please contact us.

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Club Handbook and Programmes

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