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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." |
