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GLORIOUS GRAMMARIANS 65 years of hockey celebration
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through in the end and came back the he Grammarians Hockey Club other sports, these boys formed the following year with a vengeance, going on is Gibraltar’s longest standing multi-sport Grammarians Association. As to win nine consecutive league titles. and most successful the years went by, the other local hockey team with sports slowly gave way to the “They had accolades extending abroad, giving remaining and strongest sport, It was quite a change and it was due to the never played the Rock European recognition as fact that they were boys playing against on grass before hockey, which was always a top hockey nation. With over regarded as the spearhead of men the previous year, but that season and it made it thirty league titles to their name the association. However, it hardened them and it was now a collective a completely and two nine-year title streaks, disbanded in under a decade unit of men with skill and passion in different game.” before the conversion to the renowned side boasts an abundance. unmatched dominance on the Rock. the Grammarians Hockey Gibraltar became full members of the Club with the help of one of the Christian Carl Ramagge, President of the Gibraltar European Hockey Federation in 1969 and Brothers at the local Grammar Hockey Association and a competed in the European Championships School, Brother Doherty. “I was 15 when third generation Grammarian, that year. When it comes to Grammarians bleeds the club’s colours I played my competing on foreign soil, they have This year is the club’s 65th and gave his rendition of his first game for also had the greatest success with four anniversary so there is a real buzz hockey club’s scintillating the men’s team history. “It must be championships to call their own. surrounding hockey. alongside Mark considered that Grammarians Casciaro...” The Grammarians Association was formed also had a smaller pool of From the beginning in 1951 by a group of teenage hockey players to choose from at that players who had just completed their time,” he said. “The credentials to play for Grammarians competed in the 1951/1952 studies at the former Grammar School the team required any potential addition to season, but the record shows that they and were no longer eligible to turn out have attended the Grammar School. That struggled a little and, in fact, were on for the school team. In conjunction with policy stayed for a good few years.” the brink of breaking up. But they pulled
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