Cooke Rugby Football Club, which was founded in 1910, is the oldest junior rugby club in Belfast,
Northern Ireland. They currently field 3 Senior Men's teams, the 1st XV playing in
Qualifying 1, and a successful Women's team, which competes in the Women's All-Ireland League.
It owes its origins to the members of a Bible class in the Cooke Centenary Presbyterian Church in the
Ballynafeigh area. It was originally based at
Upper Galwally until 1991 and the first clubhouse was a small black wooden hut. The club then moved to its present modern clubhouse and grounds of at
Shaws Bridge, Belfast.
Cooke had a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
club which merged with elements within the cricket section of
Belfast Harlequins associated with the former Collegians Cricket Club in 1998 and plays as
Cooke Collegians.
Honours
Rugby
*
Ulster Junior Cup: 2
** 1986-87, 2006–07
References
External reference
Sources:
Belfast Newsletter,
The Belfast Telegraph.
Cooke Rugby Club
Sports clubs in Belfast
Field hockey clubs in Northern Ireland
Rugby union clubs in Northern Ireland
Irish rugby union teams
1910 establishments in Ireland
Rugby union clubs in County Antrim
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