{"id":85,"date":"2025-12-02T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:32:19","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"85\" class=\"elementor elementor-85\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da1c8ba e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"da1c8ba\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e95c2c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e95c2c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5589c9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b5589c9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e4dfb0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7e4dfb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>History<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0275801 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0275801\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17f8c36 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"17f8c36\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Dale College founded.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1876<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 First rugby played in King William\u2019s Town.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1880<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Dale\u2019s first recorded rugby match against Ever Ready Club.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1891<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 First schoolboy match vs Queenstown Public School (later Queen\u2019s College).<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1892<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 First match vs East London Public School (later Selborne College).<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1894<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 School colours changed from Chocolate &amp; Blue to Red &amp; Black.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1906<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 \u201cShamrock Rugby Club\u201d formed by Dale boys, reigniting rugby at the school.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1929<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Famous Dale isiXhosa war cry introduced by teacher N.C. Dugmore.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1934<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 CB Jennings captains an unbeaten First XV.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1938<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Dale side scores 200 points in interschool games; tours Northern provinces.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1963<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 HO de Villiers captains Dale before becoming a Springbok.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1964<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Unbeaten season under Headmaster Russell Searle.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">1990<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Another unbeaten First XV, captained by Andrew Bennet.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">2003<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Keegan Daniel captains a talented side including Bjorn Basson and Bandise Maku.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li><p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">2017<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> \u2013 Aphelele Fassi captains Dale; later debuts as a Springbok in 2021.<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Rugby History Highlights 1861 \u2013 Dale College founded. 1876 \u2013 First rugby played in King William\u2019s Town. 1880 \u2013 Dale\u2019s first recorded rugby match against Ever Ready Club. 1891 \u2013 First schoolboy match vs Queenstown Public School (later Queen\u2019s College). 1892 \u2013 First match vs East London Public School (later Selborne College). 1894 \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"fullwidth","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"hide","_kad_post_feature":"hide","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olddalians.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}