The Scots College - Sport

Sport

Sport has traditionally played a large role in the college and is an important part of the curriculum. The college competes in the AAGPS competition and has had notable success across a number of sports. Scots GPS premierships occurred in the following years:

  • Athletics (Senior): 1894, 1936, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1975
  • Athletics (track and field) (Junior): 1932, 1933, 1935, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956 and 1971
  • Basketball (1sts): 1985, 1986, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2011, 2012 and 2013
  • Basketball (2nds): 1999, 2000 and 2012
  • Cricket (1sts): 1943(u), 1945(u), 1948, 1953, 1957, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1984 and 1989
  • Cricket (2nds): 1947, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1982, 1988, 1991 and 1996
  • Rugby Union (1sts): 1948, 1949, 1959, 1978, 1987 and 1993
  • Rugby Union (2nds): 1904, 1911, 1958, 1976 and 1979
  • Rowing (1st VIII): 1946, 1962, 1965 and 1979
  • Rowing (1st IV): 1946, 1971, 1978 and 2012
  • Rowing (2nd IV): 1933, 1961, 1978 and 1986
  • Rowing (3rd IV): 1961, 1962, 1977 and 2011
  • Rowing (4th IV): 1946, 1965 and 1977
  • Swimming (Senior): 2002 and 2004
  • Swimming (Intermediate): 2002 and 2003
  • Swimming (Junior): 2002 and 2008
  • Cross Country (Open): 2009
  • Cross Country (Intermediate): 2008 and 2011
  • Cross Country (Junior): 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2010
  • Rifle Shooting (1sts): 1938, 1939, 1980, 1981 and 1983
  • Rifle Shooting (2nds): 1948, 1971, 1983, 1985 and 1986
  • Soccer (1sts): 2011

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Famous quotes containing the word sport:

    “If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

    “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
    —Willa Cather (1876–1947)