Hamilton RFC, Sea Point

Origins

Club honours

• 2013: Hamiltons qualified to participate in the 2014 national club competition, the SARU Community Cup, by ending at the top of non-university sides in the 2013 edition of Western Province's Super League A.
• 1883-2011: Hamilton RFC won WP's Grand Challenge Cup 15 times, in 2009, 1936, 1929, 1927, 1908, 1906, 1900, 1898, 1895, 1890, 1889, 1887, 1886, 1885 and 1883.
• 2010: Hamilton RFC's sevens team won the 120th international Melrose Sevens competition in Scotland, and were runners up in 2011 to Melrose RFC.
• 2009: Hamiltons won WP's Super League A and went on to beat Pukke 36-34 at Loftus Versfeld Stadium to claim the SAA national club championships.
• 2009-14: Hamiltons hosted the inaugural Cape Town Tens rugby tournament, "the biggest ten-a-side tournament in world rugby", and will do so again for the 6th time in February 2014. The event was launched by former Springboks Robbie Fleck and Bob Skinstad in 2009, and organizers anticipated "more than 2,000 players and 12,000 spectators" to participate.

  Notable members

• Loftus Versfeld - played for Hamiltons "for five or six years"; won the inaugural Western Province Grand Challenge Cup with Hamilton RFC ; founder member, Eastern Province Rugby Union; won Eastern Province Grand Challenge Cup with Union RFC ; founder, Pretoria Rugby Club; won Transvaal Grand Challenge Cup with Pretoria RFC ; played for a Country XV against W.E. McLagan's touring British side ; founder member, Pretoria Rugby Subunion which in 1938 became Northern Transvaal; established Pretoria rugby headquarters at Eastern Sports Grounds; introduced grass playing fields to the Transvaal
• W.V. Simkins - first president of Hamiltons; first referee to supervise a match at Newlands Stadium ; chairperson of the South African Rugby Board; chairperson of the Western Province Rugby Union; chairperson of the Western Province Cricket Union.
• Bennie Osler, captain of Hamiltons, Springbok ; captain on tour to British Isles & Ireland ; joint record-holder, most consecutive test appearances at flyhalf.