The South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League is an affiliation of junior clubs in the South Sydney area.
8-1348: The Botany Rams has been operating for over 75 years under the names of Botany United and Botany RSL , before becoming Botany Juniors (Rams). Henry Morris, was President of Botany prior to his appointment as President of Souths Juniors. Their first A grade premiership was in 1922 when they played in the South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League . A Grade Premiers 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1947, G Grade Premiers 1959, E Grade Premiers 1961, E&F Grade Premiers 1962, D grade Premiers 1963, J Grade Premiers 1964 & 1965, F Grade Premiers 1968, D&G Grade Premiers 1970, C Grade Premiers 1971 & 1972, D Grade Premiers 1973, N&K Grade Premiers 1977, J Grade Premiers 1978, L& I Grade Premiers 1979,H Grade Preimers 1980, G grade Premiers 1981,F Grade Premiers 1982,E Grade Premiers 1983,Under 8 Premiers 1996, Under 9 Premiers 1997, Under 7 Premiers 2000, Under 6 Premiers 2001, Under 8 Premiers 2002, U9 Premiers 2007, U9 Premiers 2009,Under 9's Premiers 2011, Under 7's Premiers 2012, Under 16's Premiers 2013,Under 14's Division 2 Premiers 2014. Under 15's Sydney Combined Competition Division 1 Semi Finalists 2015, Under 12's Division 2 Grand Finalists. This article about
16-537: A rugby league football team or club is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an Australian sports team is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League When the South Sydney Rabbitohs first entered the NSWRL competition as South Sydney in 1908, Souths would become neighbours to fellow city counterpart,
24-584: The Eastern Suburbs Roosters . Anzac Parade separated the territories for both inner-Sydney clubs when the boundaries were first established the previous year. Souths' boundaries were based on the municipalities of Redfern , Botany , Alexandria , Mascot and Waterloo , while the Roosters' boundaries were those of the eastern municipalities of Paddington , Woollahra , Vaucluse and Waverley . The new junior league boundaries set out in
32-582: The Newtown Jets were expelled from the NSWRL in 1983, their junior district was eventually absorbed into the South Sydney junior district in 1987. With the tide having turned compared to the situation decades earlier, and the Roosters having a much smaller junior League than South Sydney, Eastern Suburbs at this time then made unsuccessful attempts to regain the suburbs on the same grounds used to hand
40-494: The Randwick and Coogee areas, was given to South Sydney. The Roosters expressed disappointment at losing some of its junior clubs, but the NSWRL would not waver. This was not to be the end of struggle for junior territory between the two inner-city clubs. In the 1980s some junior clubs such as Paddington Colts that were within Roosters territory became dissatisfied with Roosters management and affiliated with South Sydney. After
48-451: The early 1950s would take territory away from the Roosters, and hand it over to rival neighbouring club South Sydney. In the mid-20th century, the southern half of Roosters territory within the Randwick local government area was handed to South Sydney. The NSWRL made this change to 'even the competition' as South Sydney's original heartland, around Redfern and Waterloo, had rapidly industrialised and de-populated. Rabbitohs stalwart S.G. Ball
56-400: The southern parts of Coogee and Randwick from Easts to Souths, that of providing an 'even competition'. The NSWRL, controlled at the time by a Board with a ruling faction of representatives from South Sydney (Terry Parker), Balmain ( Keith Barnes ), Canterbury ( Peter Moore ) and Manly ( Ken Arthurson ), refused to redraw the boundaries. Reference: 2023 Alexandria rovers On 16 May 2008,
64-641: Was a dual administrator within South Sydney Rabbitohs and the New South Wales Rugby League at the time. The Rabbitohs were in a highly successful period and had established South Sydney Juniors Rugby League Club in Kingsford , Roosters territory in recent times. Debate still continues amongst rival fans as to how and why Eastern Suburbs territory, comprising suburbs with junior league clubs rich in talent and numbers in
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