Kelso 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 founded in 1876. They play their home games at Poynder Park, Kelso

Kelso, Scotland

Kelso is a market town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It lies where the rivers Tweed and Teviot have their confluence...

 in the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 Borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...

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Team team currently play in Premiership Division Two and 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).

Kelso's Sevens

Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens, also known as seven-a-side or VIIs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, with shorter matches. Rugby sevens is administered by the International Rugby Board , the body responsible for rugby union worldwide...

 Tournament takes place annually in August and the competition is part of the 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:...

 tournament.

Current holders of the trophy are Kelso.

Notable players

• Gary Callander
  Gary Callander
  Gary Callander is a retired Rugby Union player who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.Between 1983 and 1989 he won 6 caps playing Hooker for the Scottish Rugby Union side – for five of which he was Captain and included him leading the Scottish team to win 24–11 over France at Murrayfield Stadium in...
  
  
• Gordon Cottington
  Gordon Cottington
  -Rugby union:He was capped five times for in 1934-36. He also played for Kelso RFC.-References:* Bath, Richard The Scotland Rugby Miscellany -External links:*...
  
  
• George Fairbairn
  George Fairbairn (rugby league)
  George Fairbairn is a Scottish former rugby league footballer and coach. He played club football for Wigan, winning the Man of Steel Award in 1980. Fairbairn was also the fullback and goal-kicker for the Great Britain national team, however he represented the English national team several times,...
  
  , who later went to rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
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• 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...
  
  
• Jimmy Graham
• Bob Grieve
• John Jeffrey
  John Jeffrey
  John Jeffrey is a Scottish former internationalistrugby union player. His nicknames are "The Great White Shark" and "JJ", the former because of his blond "thatch of hair"....
  
  
• Andrew Kerr
  Andrew Kerr
  Andrew "Andy" Kerr IV was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Stanford University , Washington & Jefferson College , Colgate University , and Lebanon Valley College , compiling a career college football record...
  
  
• Scott Newlands
  Scott Newlands
  Scott Newlands is a Scottish professional rugby player, currently with Edinburgh Rugby. He comes from Kelso and has played rugby at amateur level for Kelso RFC and Heriot's Rugby Club. Newlands has also played for Scotland's national rugby sevens team, as well as for Scotland A in the Churchill...
  
  
• Alan Tait
  Alan Tait
  Alan V. Tait is a Scottish rugby footballer and coach. He is currently head coach at Newcastle Falcons and a former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played outside centre for Scotland and the British and Irish Lions...
  
  , who crossed over to rugby league, and came back again.
• George 'Happy' Wilson
  George Wilson (rugby)
  George 'Happy' Wilson is a Scottish former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s who at representative level has played rugby union for South of Scotland, at club level for Kelso RFC, playing at Wing, i.e...
  
  , who later went to rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
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1. David Borthwick.

See also

• Kelso
  Kelso, Scotland
  Kelso is a market town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It lies where the rivers Tweed and Teviot have their confluence...
  
  
• 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:...