Sports
- Rushden & Higham RUFC was founded in 1951 and is currently based on the Bedford Road in Rushden with a 1st-XV, 2nd-XV, 3rd-XV and Colts-XV.
- Rushden and Higham United Football Club, the successor to both Higham Town and Rushden Rangers clubs, are members of the Hereward Teamwear United Counties League and have their ground at Hayden Road.
- Higham Ferrers Town Cricket Club, based at the recreation grounds on Vinehill Drive, was established in 1881 and has a 1st-XI and 2nd-XI as well as an under 17's-XI and under 15's-XI.
- Higham Ferrers Town Bowls Club was founded in 1946 and is also at the recreation grounds on Vinehill Drive.
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“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)