The first school who took up rugby Kingswood College will field a strong team in the forth coming inter schools season. This time they will be led by a talented player Anuda Sikurajapath.
Kingswood College has a proud rugby history and takes pride for being the first school to play rugby, when they were known as Kandy Boys High School . It was a product of Trinity College Kandy L E. Blaze who introduced rugby in 1891 to this school. , Kingswoodains gave up the game after a few years when a player died after being injured off a kick. Since 1980, Kingswood has been doing well in rugby and won the Tyrell Muttiah trophy in the same year emerged the Schools ‘B’ division champions. That was the start of their uplift and the man who guided them was Z.M. Zarook. Then in 1981,Kingswood were promoted to the‘A’ division and ended up fourth in the Gratiaen Cup . In 1987, they had an excellent season,winning nine out of ten matches and also entered the R. Premadasa Knock-out tournament and went down to Trinity College by 11 points to 6 after leading 5-3 at lemons. in the quarter final.
In 1986, too they had a successful season winning nine out of 14 matches and drawing one game. One of the best years in their rugby for the Randles Hills boys, was the year they remained unbeaten in 1988 in seven matches and won the Schools Rugby Sevens In the recent past, Kingswood has been on top and in the year 2000, won the President’s Trophy for the first time under the captaincy of Chamara Vithanage.beating the Thomians30-26 Then in 2003, 2004 and 2005 they won the President’s Trophy. They also emerged Singer A division League champions in 2008, Seven of their players were picked to play for the Sri Lanka Youth Team in 2005.
Some ruggerites who have brought honour and fame to the school are Owen Mottau who was one of the finest full backs Sri Lanka had at that time. He played for Dimbula ACC for several years and for the country, then Iqbal Jumar played for CR & FC both of them earned a name in rugby, but never played for the school. Later players of the calibre of Lalith Wijeratne, Tissa Wijeratne,Jerome Gray,, Parakrama Samaraweera, ,Dunstan de Silva, T.M.N. Sherifdeen, Roy Amith, Palitha Wijesuriya,Ananda Kasthuriarchchi, Jeewa Galgamuwa, Senaka Bandara, Amjad and Mohamed Buksh,Chamara Vithanage, Ibrahim brothers Raja, Ronnie, Rizvi, Nilufer, Dev Anand, Nalaka Weerakkody, Fazil Marija, Tilina Weerasinghe, R.Raheem, R.Samaratunga, S. Weerasinghe,. Ranasinghe, Lavanga Perera Oshan Perera, L.M.Wahab, Chamara de Silva, Sameera Wijesinghe, I.B. Galagoda, Eranda. Weerakkody, Navin Wijeratne, Roshan Weeraratne,Gayan Weeraratne, Riza Raffaideen,gave their best At present their key game is against Wesley College for the L E.Blaze trophy which was presented by the famous Kingswoodian Roy de Silva
