The Streatham-Croydon Rugby Football Club,
is a historic Rugby Union club, founded in 1871, based at Frant Road, Thornton Heath, in the London Borough of Croydon, South London. Streatham currently hold the Rugby Football Union Surrey 3 league title and won the Surrey Bowl in 2011–12 season. Streatham will play in theRugby Football Union Surrey 2 league, Surrey Shield and the RFU Junior Vase in season 2012–13.
Streatham's heyday was arguably during the late 1960s and 70s, when 9 senior teams and 4 Colts teams were active, combined with an extensive fixture list against top clubs such as Richmond, Bath, Sale, Saracens, London Welsh, London Irish and others.
The professional era and the impact of the new RFU Courage League structure through the late 1980s and 90s led to a decline in the size of the Club as greater attention was paid to the needs of the 1st XV, and Streatham's membership struggle coincided with its drop down the National and then London leagues.
Streatham Rugby was featured in a book titled "London's Oldest Rugby Clubs" by Dick Tyson, published in May 2008.
Former Player include
England prop, and later RFU committee man, Jeff Probyn played at Streatham for a number of seasons in the late 1970s before moving to Wasps and gaining his first England cap. Current Super League player Will Sharp, played for Streatham 1st XV, before signing his first professional contract with Harlequins RL in 2007. Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson played for the club's Colts side from 1969–71 before touring France to learn his trade. Recently the club has learnt that former Prime Minister James Callaghan played second-row for the club in the 1939 season. Peter Horton, Colts and 1st XV, emigrated to Australia and played hooker 19 times for Australia between 1974 and 1979, gaining his first cap against New Zealand and his last one against Argentina.
Jeff Prodyn
Maurice Colclough
Will Sharp
Antony Worrall Thompson
James Callaghan
Peter Horton
Congrats go to Sludge Bucket for the FTF.