Try to find in Dead Ball Area Traditional Cache
karenskie7209: Have had to replaces this cache to many times, its container (an old rugby ball with a slit in the middle to accommodate the cache) is obviously being retrieved by players when looking for real balls. As my kids no longer play rugby at Lenzie its time to put this one to bed, I will hide another cache on Lenzie moss instead that is less likely to be discovered by accident.
Try to find in Dead Ball Area
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Cache was replaced (after muggling) on Jan 13th 2015 now in a new location on the opposite wing, in line with the right hand corner flag position and at the corner of The garage No 10)
PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FIND THIS CACHE IF THERE ARE PLAYERS AND SPECTATORS ABOUT AS IT WILL ONLY GET MUGGLED AGAIN
PLEASE REPLACE EXACTLY AS YOU FOUND IT WELL HIDDEN WITH ITS LABLE AND ITS LACE TUCKED IN OUT OF SIGHT
This was the first in our "Try to find" series all hidden on rugby pitches we frequent
We had 2 Lenzie players and 2 coaches in our family when the cache was first hidden, (now only one player). Can be a bit muddy over the winter so waterproof footwear is recomended. Please try and not walk across the pitches if its muddy leave it to the players to destroy the surface. The new position of the cache almost makes it a cache and grab as its nearer the carpark.
Extract from Lenzie RFC – 100 Years Of Rugby, by Brian Scott 1988
“A rugby club has been formed in Lenzie,” the Kirkintilloch Herald attests in its issue of February 22, 1899, “and, on Saturday, they played their first match when they played 2nd Partickhill at Partick. Considering the reputations of their opponents, they made not such bad shape (sic) in losing by three tries to one”
We are entitled to assume from this that Saturday, February 18, 1899, marked the start of the game in the community which grew around the railway arcing out of Glasgow towards Edinburgh. But we have to query what purports to be fact.
Lenzie Rugby Football Club’s formation is always believed to have taken place in the 1897-98 season, their opening match reputedly having been against a team recruited from the crew of a battleship, HMS Benbow, in the autumn of 1898.
Both claims have eluded substantiation, yet a publication of the time, Scottish Sport, reveals that Craigielea of Paisley played Lenzie and beat them “by a goal to nothing” on SWaturday, October 1, 1898.
Its report says that “there was some clever play exhibited by both sides” and that “Lenzie go about their work in the right way”. It does not say that Lenzie were playing their inaugural match on the day in question, which signalled the start of a new season.
So it could well be that Lenzie, like Craigielea themselves and a closer neighbour, Bearsden, had begun to play the previous season; albeit without their players having formalised themselves into a club.
That may not have happened until nearer the date identified by the Kirkintilloch Herald which followed up its original report with another on March 18, 1899, saying: “2n d Clydesdale v Lenzie Rugby – Lenzie played their second match at Titwood on Saturday, being beaten 12 points to 0.”
The haze enshrouding Lenzie’s beginnings was starting to clear by then although it is not until the first available club records start in 1920 that their history gains true clarity.
Parking is available in the rugby Club Carpark but on match days this can be very busy, actually trying to find the cache on a match day could be challenging.
Other caches nearby are Magic Numbers, by krgjo:GC31C2Q and Campsie View, by The Silver Foxes: GC10848
The cache is hidden well in touch and well beyond the dead ball line, please replace as found and let me know if drainiage is a problem, it is Lenzie Moss after all and so standing water and poor drainage can often upset the game
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