Jed-Forest Rugby Football Club are a rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 team who are based at Riverside Park in Jedburgh

Jedburgh

Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.-Location:Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey...

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One of the world's oldest and most famous clubs, the team was founded in 1885 and currently play in Premiership Division Two and the Border League

Border League

For the defunct baseball league, see Border League The Border League, is the oldest established rugby union league in the World, having been formed in 1901...

 (the oldest established rugby union league in the world).

Honours

Kings of the Sevens

Borders Sevens Circuit

The Borders Sevens Circuit is the name given to rugby union sevens tournaments that are held annually in the Scottish Borders. It is the oldest Sevens Circuit in the world, with most sevens dating from the 19th century.-Kings of the Sevens:...

 - 2006

Jed-Forest Sevens - 2007
Berwick Sevens - 2003, 2005, 2006
Earlston Sevens - 2003, 2006
Kelso Sevens - 2002, 2004, 2007

Notable former players

• Gary Armstrong
  Gary Armstrong
  Gary Armstrong is a former Scottish rugby union player who played scrum-half. He played for Jed-Forest RFC, Newcastle Falcons, The Borders and represented Scotland and the British Lions. His nickname is the Border Terrier...
  
  
• Ross Ford
  Ross Ford
  Ross William Ford is a professional rugby union player who plays as hooker for both Edinburgh and Scotland. He signed for Edinburgh after starting his professional career with the Border Reivers, but after the Reivers disbandment in the summer of 2007, Ford was left without a club...
  
  
• Gavin Kerr
  Gavin Kerr
  Gavin Kerr is a retired rugby union footballer who played prop, he played international rugby for Scotland. He played club rugby for Leeds Tykes , the defunct Border Reivers, Edinburgh and Sale Sharks...
  
  
• Roy Laidlaw
  Roy Laidlaw
  Roy James Laidlaw is a Scottish rugby union footballer. Laidlaw was capped 47 times, as a scrum half, for Scotland between 1980–1988, and British Lions in New Zealand in 1983....
  
  
• Thomas "Tom" McKinney
  Thomas McKinney
  Thomas "Tom" McKinney was a Northern Irish rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s who at club level played rugby union for Jed-Forest RFC, and at representative level played rugby league for Great Britain, Other Nations, British Empire XIII, and Rugby League...
  
  
• Charles "Charlie" Renilson
  Charles Renilson
  Charles "Charlie" W. Renilson is a Scottish former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who, whilst serving in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, at club level has played rugby union for Jed-Forest RFC, and at representative level has played rugby league...
  
  
• David Rose
  David Rose (rugby)
  David M. Rose is a Scottish former rugby union and professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer of the 1950s who at representative level has played rugby union for Scotland, and at club level for Jed-Forest RFC, playing at Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and at representative level has...
  
  
• Jon Steel
  Jon Steel
  Jon Steel is a Scottish rugby league player currently with Championship side Featherstone Rovers. He is a former rugby union player who represented his country at youth level before switching codes in 2005...
  
  
• Garry Ramsay
• George Douglas
  George Douglas (rugby)
  George Douglas was a Scottish rugby union and rugby league player.-Rugby union:He was capped once for in 1921. He also played for Jedforest RFC.-References:...
  
  

See also

• Jedburgh
  Jedburgh
  Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.-Location:Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey...
  
  
• Border League
  Border League
  For the defunct baseball league, see Border League The Border League, is the oldest established rugby union league in the World, having been formed in 1901...
  
  
• Borders Sevens Circuit
  Borders Sevens Circuit
  The Borders Sevens Circuit is the name given to rugby union sevens tournaments that are held annually in the Scottish Borders. It is the oldest Sevens Circuit in the world, with most sevens dating from the 19th century.-Kings of the Sevens:...