Dundee HSFP
Dundee Rugby Club (formerly known as Dundee High Rugby) are a rugby union team that play their home games at the Mayfield Playing Fields, Dundee, Scotland and . The team was founded in 1880 by former pupils of the High School of Dundee. The men's side played in ; the women's side, known as the Dundee Valkyries, played in the until 2021 when the club merged with Morgan Rugby Club to form Dundee Rugby Club. Please see Dundee Rugby Club for future club information. History. Beginnings. No doubt inspired by Abertay's Louis Auldjo, Dundee's first international  rugby player, who had represented Scotland against England at the Oval in 1878, Dundee High School Former Pupils' Rugby Football Club was formed in 1880 by a group of schoolfriends and rugby aficionados, David Hynd, David Hutchison and Tom Ferguson, the principals of the affectionately monikered "Maryfield Gang" after the scrap of wasteland on which they would play after school. With no sport on the school curriculum in the 19th century, the boys passionately followed local teams Abertay and Red Cross and upon leaving school met in The Victoria coffee house on 23 November 1880 and decided to form their  own team. That meeting produced the first office bearers of the club: 1st XV 2nd XV The club is no longer restricted to former pupils of the high school and is an open club. Sevens. The club run the Dundee Sevens tournament.