Eastern Suburbs District Rugby Union Football Club

esdrufc was formed at a meeting at the paddington town hall on thursday, march 22 1900. in an assembly presided over by the mayor and aldermen of woollahra council, 200 eastern suburbs residents turned out to hear colonel j.c. nield put forward a case for the birth of a local rugby club. the famous sports journalist jack davis motioned for the formation of the club and, from that point forth, esdrufc came in to being. to this day, easts rugby is the oldest district rugby union club in australia. since then, easts rugby has seen a lot of great players. the first ever try-scorer for eastern suburbs in a first grade premiership match was h.d. thompson, who scored a try on may 19, 1900 playing glebe at the sydney cricket ground. that same day, leo finn made the conversion and became easts first goal scorer. that year, easts rugby was honoured to have test forward a.j. (tiger) kelly become its first nsw representative, when he helped lead nsw to victory over qld 11-9 in sydney on july 21, 1