St. Peter's plans big celebrations for rugby football

By A. C. de Silva

St. Peter's has had a wonderful rugby football season this year and to prop their morale up for the future the Peterites won both the Inter-School Under 20 'A' division league championship and the President's Trophy knock-out tournaments.

The success of the Peterites is not just a flash in the pan effort as the school has had a long history in the game since 1932. This year in the 75th year in rugby football and the school authorities are making elaborate plans to celebrate the occasion in a fitting manner.

The Old Boys Union of St. Peter's, plan to big preparations and they have decided to have a database of all the Peterites who represented the school in rugby football.

All Peterites who have represented the school from 1932 to 2006 from under 11 to under 20 are requested to contact the St. Peter's Old Boys Union, invite all past rugby football captains, players and surviving family members (of those rugby players who have passed away) who are living here in Sri Lanka or overseas to furnish their individual contact details along with the years represented to either one of the following members of the OBU: E-mail: Sujith ([email protected]) Hamza- [email protected], [email protected], then on the telephone - Sujith: 0777320033, Hamza - 0773624443, Trinesh - 0777334626, Fazal - 0777562040 or by post: C/o Secretary, Sports Development Committee, St. Peter's College, Colombo 4.

The list of the past captains at St.Peter's from 1932 to 2006: H. Billimori (1932), J. E. F. Pereira (1933), Shirley de Illesinghe (1934), Fred Kellar (1935), Archibald Perera (1936), Percy Perera (1937 and 1938), Vernon Peiris (1939), Kenneth Silva (1940), W. A. Chandrasena (1941), 1942 to 1948: No Rugger (World War II), Harold Silva (1949), A. W. H. Perera (1950), Ago Paiva (1951), Geoff Garnier (1952), Terry Williams (1953), G . Tharmaratnam (1954), Desmond Ephrains (1956), Jayantha Fernando (1957), M. Salih (1958), I. Johnson (1959), Adiel Anghie (1960), Didacus de Almeida (1961). Stephen Alagaratnam (1962), J. Rodriguez (1963), Rohan Abeysundera (1964), Darrel Wimalaratne (1965), Hamzi Hameed (1966), Rodney Patternott (1967), Ronnie Gunaratne (1968), Sunil Perera (1969), Hemish Patternot (1970), Jizvi Nizar (1971), Jiffrey de Jong (1972), Rohan Wiratunga (1973), Nimal Jayasuriya (1974), Frank Hubert (1975), Roshan Deen (1976), Angelo Wickremaratne (1977), Jerry Gomez (1978), H. Didi (1979), Ainsley Baldsing (1980), Keith Nugegoda (1981), Roshan Paulus (1982), Prasanna Wimalasena (1983), Viraj Fernando (1984). Rajith Abeygoonewardena (1985), Rowen Gunasekera (1986), Rohan Ekanayake (1987), Shadwell de Silva (1988), Colin Dinesh Peter (1989), Harendra Wijesena (1990), Manoj N. Bakshani (1991), R. D. Fredricks (1992), Leonard de Zilva (1993), Roshan L. Alles (1994), Sajeewa Abeygoonewardena (1995), Kirk William (1996), Achala Silva (1997), Rajeev Perera (1998), Gavin A. Ludowyke (1999), Gladwyn Georgesz (2000), C. Dilan Abeygoonewardena (2001), Dilanka Wijesekera (2002), Rumaiz Ishaq (2003), Mohamed Rinaz (2004), Sajith Adikari (2005), Harendra Ariyawardene (2006).