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The Canberra Royals Rugby Football Club is an Australian
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
club, based in Canberra.


Club history

Canberra Royals has a proud tradition and identifies closely with the Royals Foundation Team of 1949. Our current Club Patron is life member, John Kelsey. Royals has produced over 20 Australian representatives including 11 Wallabies, 14 Wallaroos, and more than two dozen representatives Australia wide. The Club has featured in 70 percent of all grand finals since the establishment of rugby in Canberra, and has won 20 First Grade Premierships. The women's team has won 14 premierships contested to date and was undefeated in 2000 and 2001. Royals is renowned for its rugby innovation and a number of its former players, coaches and managers have gone on to establish careers in the Brumbies (which is an acknowledged world class organisation) and with interstate and overseas rugby clubs. Players include; Brumbies contract players, Connal McInerney, Andy Muirhead and Rory Scott. Former Bluebagger, Tom Staniforth, is currently playing pro rugby in France.


See also

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ACTRU Premier Division The ACTRU Premier Division is a rugby union club competition based in Canberra, Australia, and conducted by the region's governing body, the ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union. It contains four Senior Grades of competition plus Colts, and is compet ...


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