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HEREWARD RAMS
Based: Various locations in the Stamford/Peterborough area
Career Record: record unknown
Colours: White pants, black mesh shirts (borrowed from Alconbury)
Website: No
Honours: None
Team notes: Un-affiliated kitted side who were a start-up team of local players in 1983. They had an American
who'd played at high school as coach although from what they all later
learned at Cambridge and Rockingham. The team simply didn't understand
what was involved and could not have succeeded. Played one kitted game against Alconbury. Several players went onto join Rockingham Rebels
or the Cambridge County Cats. Hereward is a local name , a historic figure from the Viking days .. it can be seen in several
local names like the Hereward Centre in Peterborough. Folded in 1986
This article was written by a former player of the team,
"With hindsight they were TOO early, and by the time the potential to succeed was there they
were already drifting apart. Maximum squad size was between 16 and 20, from recollection the
Alconbury game was played with most people playing both ways. They did also have a kitted game
scheduled against Scunthorpe Steelers, but it never reached a definite form.
Colours were white/black/white and helmet emblem was a ram's head - taken from a Derby County
promotional hand-out of stickers! I'm sure of this because I still have my helmet in the loft,
out of curiosity I peeled off the split and tatty Cats sticker on one side and the Rams one is
still in place underneath. I resprayed my helmet black ( with a halford's rattlecan in the
carpark one training night - happy days! ) when I joined Cambridge.
I also still have the white pants and red mesh shirt which served as training kit through my
Cambridge days and beyond, don't have the game shirt though. The comments about borrowing mesh
shirts from Alconbury is largely true but some players at least had their own shirts. I had mine
numbered #00 because I had worn that number briefly as an exchange student a few years
before."
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