Manly RUFC

Manly Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in Manly, a suburb of Sydney's Northern Beaches. The club was added to the Sydney district clubs competition in 1906^[1] which today competes for the Shute Shield under the New South Wales Rugby Union. They are today known as the Marlins and play their home games at Manly Oval.

The new Manly district club was formed in 1906 via an informal merger of the existing Manly clubs,^[2] which have roots back to 1883.^[3] The local homeground, Manly Oval, was used for the new club.

The Manly district club colours in 1906 were white jerseys with deep red collar/neck/cuffs, then from 1907 to 1914 were navy blue, light blue and red.^[4] Red and dark blue jerseys have been used since the early 1920s.^[5]

Late in the 1914 season it was announced that Manly were to be made merge with the neighbouring North Sydney club under the name Northern Suburbs, however with the outbreak of World War One the plan was abandoned.^[6] No club competitions were played again in Sydney until 1919.^[7]

The club were a great force in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1950 Manly won both the first grade and reserve grade titles in the same season. However, there were no titles for over 30 years, until 1983, under coach Alan Jones, though the club, while playing entertaining running rugby, could not produce consistent results.

In 1997 the club again won the first grade title. In 2006 Manly celebrated 100 years of rugby. Scott Clemmett has scored 7 tries for Manly and Anthony Bergelin has scored 10. Yool Yool 9.