8th. Annual Tournament
Ten sides, including teams from the London area took part in Rye Rugby Club’s 8th. Annual Tournament at the New Road Ground on Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend. Continue reading Great Day for Rye Rugby Club
Category: Sports
More for Juniors at Rye Tennis Club
By Terry Spencer
There are now more opportunities in Rye for local young people to join in and learn their tennis skills. For some time club coaches have offered lessons for individuals and small groups at Rye Tennis Club, and junior tournament events have been held annually as part of the Rye Tennis Festival. Continue reading More for Juniors at Rye Tennis Club
Soccer Chat February 1973
BELA OLAH’s RYE UNITED county league side are going through a difficult time. A dour struggle against top of the table RINGMER on 7th January, resulted in a goalless draw, thanks to some fine work by Rye Keeper STEVEN WILLIAMS, and raised hopes of a return to form by the side. The following week a scrappy home defeat to Southwick left Rye with empty pockets hovering dangerously close to the relegation zone of the Div. One Table. Continue reading Soccer Chat February 1973
Table Tennis Terrors
These Girls Beat all the Boys
Ann and Penny Boreham of Kings Avenue are a Table Tennis Duo who have struck terror into the ranks of the boys in the Community Centre Team.
Individually they have been beaten by some of the boys, but teamed together in doubles matches they have taken on all comers and won every time. Continue reading Table Tennis Terrors
Iden Ladies Win Again
lden Ladies Football Team entertained the Eastbourne Debs at Iden Park on the 1st December.
This was the ldens girls second match and a much tougher encounter than their first against Appledore when they were the victors by seven goals to nil. Continue reading Iden Ladies Win Again
Down Rye Way Jim Foster
Cyclist & Printer
One of Rye’s best known personalities and a man whose ideas have influenced the town’s ways of life is Mr. Jim Foster of Udimore Road. Continue reading Down Rye Way Jim Foster
Soccer Chat April 1967
Soccer Chat
Iden The Cup Fighters.
With the end of the season in sight the clubs are jockeying for position in their respective leagues. For Rye and local clubs Cup prospects have disappeared.
Little Iden, riding high on the top of the Hastings League Division IV table, have carried the cup banner the longest, eventually being knocked out of the Lower Divisions Cup by Division III league leaders, Clive Vale. Iden did not go out without a great fight though, after being 3-0 down at half time in their third round match Continue reading Soccer Chat April 1967
Rye Lad is Sussex Champion
Mick Ashdown Wins Sussex Sprint Championship
It was a proud moment for the Rye and District Wheelers when the club’s top track rider, Mike Ashdown, out-rode all competition and became the 1966 Sussex Sprint Champion. The event took place at Preston Park Track on Wednesday, 22nd June. Continue reading Rye Lad is Sussex Champion
Success for the Wheelers
Success for the Wheelers
Four riders represented the Rye cycling club in the first race of the season, run off over 12 torturous miles of Sussex roads near Battle, three of the steep hills had to be climbed in this time trial event, aptly named the Hard-riders Twelve and organised by the East Sussex Cycling Association. Continue reading Success for the Wheelers
On the Ball
The Story of the First Rye Football Clubs
Football, the soccer variety, captured the imagination of the people of Rye well before the turn of the century. There were doubtless many teams playing the old style “kick and rush” type of football in Rye and the surrounding districts in the days of the great Corinthians and Wanderers—but legend only tells the story of the early clubs of Rye. Continue reading On the Ball