Online Resources:
- 1st XV team photographs
- The first team photograph of Sherborne’s 1st XV, 1868
- The early days of rugby at Sherborne School
- Unbeaten seasons
- The Three Cock
- ‘Collar him! Down with it! Well played all!’: Sherborne School’s rugby football song
- Coaches
- The Sherborne ‘cabbage’ badge and the ‘Wessex Dragon’
- Peter Candler v. Charles Dick & the battle for the Calcutta Cup, 1938
- Winners of the Public Schools Sevens Tournament, 1953
- Shirburnians who have represented their country in sport
- International players
- Barbarian representatives
- Sherborne and the Bledisloe Cup
- Playing Fields & Pavilions
- Sports & Games at Sherborne School
Further Reading:
- The early days of rugby at Sherborne School
- A.B. Gourlay, A History of Sherborne School (Sherborne, Sawtells Ltd., 1971)
- D.F. Gibbs, A History of (Rugby) Football at Sherborne School (Sherborne School, 1983)
- Robert Hands, Rugby Football at Sherborne School, with a foreword by J.A. Tallent (Sherborne School, 1991)
- Malcolm Tozer (ed.), Pudding, Bullies and Squashes. Early Public School Football Codes (Sunnyrest Books, 2020). Includes a chapter written by Robert Hands about Sherborne School.
- B. Pickering Pick (ed.), The Sherborne Register 1550-1950 (Winchester, Warren & Son Ltd., 4th ed., 1950)
For further information about the Sherborne School Archives please contact the School Archivist.
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