History

1960’s  

1960 The Druids Rugby Football Club is created. Brian Jones is the first team captain and Granville Battin scores the first club try.
1962 Druid Derek Webster creates the province’s first 7’s tournament.
1966 Druids win the 1st Division Provincial Championship.
1967 Druids win the 1st Division Provincial Championship. Druids win the 2nd Division City Championship.
1967 Alberta Rep team plays England. Druids Roger Cowper, Bill Spaul and Don Brander  make the  Alberta team.
1967 Druids embark on a weekend train trip to Vancouver and play 2 games in 24 hours.
1968 Druids win the 1st Division Provincial Championship.
Druids win the 2nd Division Provincial Championship.
1968 Druid Brian Heffel wrestles for Canada in the Mexico Olympics.
1969 Druids win the 1st Division City Championship.
1969 Druids place 13 players on the Edmonton representative team and 8 players on the Alberta team.
1969 Druids win the 2nd Division City Championship.
 

1970’s

1971 The Edmonton Rugby community decides to construct the Ellerslie Rugby Park and a 30 acre parcel of land is purchased. Druid Chris Ireland signs the land purchase agreement as president of the Edmonton Rugby Union.
1971 Druids win the 2nd Division City Championship.
1973 Druids win the 2nd Division City Championship. The Alberta Rep team plays Wales and Druids Brian Heffel, Mike Cantle, Terry Caudwell and John Parton make the team.
1973 Druids host the Anti Assassins touring side from Britain.
1974 Druids win the 2nd Division Provincial Championship
1974 Druids win the 3rd Division provincial Championship.
1974 Druids host Porthcawl RFC of Wales. Visiting players include Wales and British Lions players John Bevan, Clive Schell and Clive Williams.
1975 Druids win the 2nd Division City Championship.
1975 The first regulation size rugby fields in Northern Alberta are completed and construction starts on the 4000 sq ft change room facility.
1975 Druid Glen (Scotty) Wright starts Druids Security at the Kinsman Field House
1976 Alberta plays the Barbarians and Druids John Parton and Bob Nyren make the rep team.
1977 The Druids embark on a tour of England and Wales, the first tour to the UK by an Alberta team. They win the Porthcawl 7’s beating the Vancouver Island Castaways 18 to 4 in the semi-final.
1974 Druids win the 3rd Division City Championship.
1978 The Druids 1st clubhouse “Stonehenge” opens on September 16th.

1980’s

1980 Six Druids; Daryl Hollowychuk, Dave Morawski, Brian Cox, Steve Dykstra, Gord  MacLeod and Scott McMorrow are selected for Alberta in the Canadian National Junior Championships. 
1981 Druids embark on a tour of Ireland and Wales
1982 Long time Druid Roger Cowper is awarded a recreational citation by
the City of Edmonton for his service to rugby.
1984 Hugo McNeil who played on Ireland’s 1982 and 1985 Triple Crown
winning teams joins the Druids.
1984 Druids win the 4th Division City Championship
1985 Druids embark on a tour of Atlantic Canada.
1985 Druids win the U19 men’s Provincial Championship.
1989 Druids win the U19 men’s Provincial Championship.
1989 U17 men win the Provincial Championship.
1989 Druids embark on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.

1990's

1990 U19 Men win the Provincial Championship.
1990 Druids men win the 1st division City Championship.
1990 Druids men win the 4th division City Championship.
1990 U17 men win the City Championship.
1990 Druids RFC win the ERU Club Champions award.
1990 Druids women win the 2nd division Provincial Championship.
1992 Druids men win the 1st division Provincial Championship.
1993 Druids RFC win the ERU Club Champions award.
1995 Druids RFC win the ERU Most Sportsmanlike award.
1995 Druid men win the 3rd division Provincial Championship.
Druid  men’s coach Richard Adams selected as the ERU Coach of the Year.
1996 Druid women win the 2nd division Provincial Championship.
1996 Druids men win the 4th division City Championship.
1997 Druids men win the 1st division Provincial Championship.
1997 Druids women win the 1st division Provincial Championship.
1997 Druids RFC wins the ERU Club Champions award.
1997 Druids men’s coach Richard Adams selected as the ERU Coach of the Year.
1998 Druids women win the 1st division Provincial Championship.
1998 Druids RFC win the ERU Most Sportsmanlike award.
1998 U18 women win the City Championship
1998 U-17 men win the City Championship
1998 U-19 men tour England and Wales.

2000's

2000 U18 women win the City Championship.
2000 Druids ladies embark on a tour of Venezuela
200X U17 men win the Provincial Championship.
2001 U18 Women Tour the UK
2001 U-18 men tour Scotland.
2001 U18 women win the Provincial Championship.
2001 U18 men win the City Championship.
2001 Druids men win the 3rd Division City Championship.
2001 Druids RFC wins the ERU Club Champions award.
2002 U19 men win the Provincial Championship
2002 U18 women win the City Championship.
2002 U17 men win the Provincial Championship.
2003 Druids women win the 2nd division Provincial Championship.
2003 U19 men win the Provincial Championship.
2003 U17 men win the City Championship.
2003 U18 men tour England and Wales.
2003 Edmonton Hosts the Churchill Cup and Team Canada trains at the
Druids facility.
2003 Druids host the Canadian Interuniversity Sports Women’s
Rugby championship at the Strathcona Rugby Park.
2004 Druids men win the 3rd division Provincial Championship.
2004 U19 men win the City Championship.
2004 U17 men win the City Championship.
2004 Edmonton Hosts the Churchill Cup and Team England trains at the Druids facility.
2004 Druids RFC wins the ERU Club Champions award.
2005 Druid men win the 1st division Provincial Championship
2005 U18 men win the Provincial Championship
2005 Druids women win the 2nd division Provincial Championship.
2006 Edmonton hosts the IRB Women’s World Cup and team USA and team France train at the Druids facility.
2009 Druids host the Canadian Interuniversity Sports Women’s Rugby  Western Canada championship at the Strathcona Rugby Park.
2009 Druids head to Las Vegas  for the Midnight 7”s
2010 Strathcona Druids RFC 50th Anniversary
2010 U18 Men Tour England

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