Run by: Cartha Queens Park RFC
Where: Dumbreck, Glasgow
Winners play for: Cartha Challenge Cup
Notes: Originally run by Cartha rugby club. There has been confusion over the club name; simply the south Glasgow club name of Cartha is based on a poetic name for the River Cart, a tributary of the Clyde which flows through Cathcart and Paisley. (See for example: the Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette of 23 November 1889 which ran a poem ‘Cartha’s banks’. There was also a Cartha Engineering Works at 22 Smithhills in Paisley.)
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001738/18891123/065/0005
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18890220/006/0005
Cartha merged with Queens Park rugby club in 1974; and the Sevens became the Cartha Queens Park Sevens, and later on a further name change the Glasgow City Sevens.
Past winners
Men
- 2018 Marr
- 2017 Tynedale
- 2016 Scottish Rugby Academy
- 2015 Glasgow Hawks
- 2014 Ulster
- 2013 Glasgow Warriors
- 2012 Glasgow Hutchesons Aloysians
- 2011 Glasgow Warriors
- 2010 Glasgow Hawks
- 2009 Sale Sharks
- 2008 Dragons
- 2007 Sale Sharks
- 2006 Edinburgh
- 2005 Edinburgh
- 2004 Glasgow Warriors
- 2003 Boroughmuir
- 2002 Glasgow Hawks
- 2001 Currie
- 2000 West of Scotland
- 1999 Hillhead Jordanhill
- 1998 East Kilbride
- 1997 Hutchesons Aloysians
- 1996 Cambuslang
- 1995 Grangemouth Stags
- 1994 Grangemouth Stags
- 1993 Hillhead Jordanhill
- 1992 Hawick Trades
- 1991 Hawick Trades
- 1990 Hawick Trades
- 1989 Hawick Trades
- 1988 Hawick Trades
- 1987 Hillhead
- 1986 Hawick Trades
- 1985 Hawick Trades
- 1984 Hillhead
- 1983 Cartha Queens Park
- 1982 Hawick Trades
- 1981 Cartha Queens Park
- 1980 Cartha Queens Park
- 1979 Hawick Trades
- 1978 Hawick Trades
- 1977 Hawick Trades
- 1976 Hawick Trades
- 1975 Hawick Trades
- 1974 Paisley Grammarians
- 1973 Kelvinside Academicals
- 1972 Kelvinside Academicals
- 1971 Grangemouth Stags
- 1970 Hawick Trades
- 1969 Hawick Trades
- 1968 Old Grammarians
- 1967 Hawick Trades
- 1966 Hawick Trades
- 1965 Hawick Trades
- 1964 Glasgow HSFP
- 1963 Hawick Trades
- 1962 Hawick Trades
- 1961 Hawick Trades
- 1960 Hawick Trades
- 1959 Bellahouston
- 1958 Haddington
- 1957 Haddington
- 1956 Haddington
- 1955 Haddington
- 1954 Jordanhill
- 1953 Jordanhill
- 1952 Jordanhill
- 1951 Hawick Trades
- 1950 Hawick Trades
- 1938–1949 Second World War
- 1937 Kelvinside Academicals
- 1936 Whitehill FP
- 1935 Glasgow HSFP
Tournaments
15 April 1972
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19720417&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
19 April 1958
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19580421&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
18 April 1953
3 April 1937
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19370405&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
4 April 1936
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19360406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
Can you provide any information?
1994 winners were Hillhead-Jordanhill, beat GHA in the final
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My apologies , age does terrible things..I have just found winners medal for 1993 , not 1994 , I was convinced it was 94 , so I am maybe doing Grangemouth a disservice, and see Hawick Trades down as 93 winners
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Winners medal in 1993. Excellent and well done! I have changed the 1993 winners to Hillhead Jordanhill.
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Many thanks…it was a good day out …won it 84 and 87 too , great times Gus
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Apologies. This link to a Cartha history book shows Grangemouth winning in 1994; https://en.calameo.com/read/0048072993eda9c390134 (appendix 4 at the end). Can I ask your evidence / testimony before I make the change?
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Hi , thanks for getting in touch.I captained the team that day , attached is a report from Alan Christie , admit no date on it, but hopefully can be used , kind regards Gus Napier
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Sorry I meant to add , a friend recently told me about this site, like to say how much I enjoyed browsing through , some great memories etc . thanks Gus
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I captained Hillhead /Jordanhill that day, sent you an email reply with report from Alan Christie attached, admittedly not dated . We beat Grangemouth in the 2nd round , then Hawick Trades before the final
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Sent new comment on page, seems it was 1993 ,(found my winners medal !) so sorry age playing games Gus Napier
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