Eastern Suburbs RUFC
The Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Football Club is a team in the Shute Shield and the Tooheys New cup, the premier club rugby union football competition in New South Wales.
The club is based in Rose Bay in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, and is the oldest district rugby club in Sydney, having been founded in 1900. The Roosters rugby league club, based in the same area, has been in existence since 1908.
Easts have won a total of 76 NSWRU premiership titles or shields across all grades, as well as 9 club championships.
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Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or suburbs:
“Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh,
As Eastern Summers are,
Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh,
Add light to some small Star.”
—Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)
“Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)