GORTON STREET GAZETTE - Shortage of pint pots reported. Suggested that this was due to people borrowing glasses for parties and not returning them! In future a deposit of 20p per glass should be levied on all pots borrowed. two dozen pint pots were now needed - Results 5 teams played - Colts XV 19 v Preston Grasshoppers 3. Birchfield v Eccles 1st - cancelled, waterlogged pitch. Eccles 2nd 16 v Birchfield 3. The other fixtures were against Fylde, Sedgley Park and Broughton. for the bar. 14th Feb - Discussion on dropping Birchfield as a fixture because they only field two 11th Feb. - Annual Dinner provisionally booked for the evening of 20th Nov. at the the following meeting. - Social Sec. announced a darts match, a folk night and a quiz night would take place. All events reported to be successful at - Tickets were available for the Referee's Dinner at Old Trafford Cricket Club. - 11th March Correspondence - A letter has been received from the Lancashire Plate committee informing us that we have been selected to stage the semifinal of the Lancs. Plate between Kersal and UMIST. Sheila Thomas // Eccles RFC Historian (with Chris Gaffey Chipping in) teams - agreed to! 1987 35 years ago Wendover Hotel, Monton Rudi Sheldon RIP The club is sad to learn that Mr Rudi Sheldon, a former local school teacher, player, club committee member and champion of colts rugby at Eccles RFC died last November at his home in Maidenhead, aged 97. Mr Sheldon was instrumental in commencing a programme of attracting school leavers to join the club from Wardley Grammar School and Moorside High School where he taught. Rudi and Ivor Ridgeway organised annual popular Sevens competitions for Salford schools and subsequently the first Eccles Colts team was formed in the 1962/63 Season. Eccles successfully went on to enter teams in the Oxford University RFC Sevens Competitions. At the committee meeting on 21st Nov 1966, special thanks was given to Mr. R. Sheldon, for his excellent work as Fixture Secretary organising rugby for 5 senior teams and the Colts team. The following year he left the district to live in the Maidenhead area where he and his wife continued to be involved in community life, Rudi would often be found at Maidenhead Rugby Club and was a founding member of the Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra.
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