Old Trinitians Rugby Scrummage Committee is going all out to give a hand and bring back rugby at Trinity College to its former position. Due to the present situation rugby at Trinity College is in the dark.
Old Trinitians Rugby scrummage with talented past rugger players in the committee are sure to do their best,their head is Channa Pathirana one of the finest rugby forwards of the 1980s who took over the presidency from a another top rugby player and promoter P. Siva Subramanian.
The present committee has promoters like vice presidents Ashan Ratwatte and Thakshala Hettiarchchi both were top class players. The secretary Amil Ramanathan and the treasurer is Asanka Ranhotti. The committee was made of top players like Janindra Dunuwille, Nilantha Ratnayake, M.T..L.J. Perera, Harris Omar, Murad Ramzeen, D.N.R. Fernando, Thusith Inok, Lakmal Tennakoon and S.W. Chang.
Channa as he is popularly known was a lock forward who sported the Trinity College jersey in 1988 under Bindu Dandeniya. Then in 1989 he played under Rohan Ranaraja and led Trinitians in the R. Premadasa knockout tournament that year. In 1989 he played a few games for Kandy SC as a schoolboy and had to keep off from rugby due to higher studies.
Rugby Scrummage gives a big hand for rugby, the scrummage was the brainchild of Kenneth Boteju who played for Trinity in the late 1940’s as a wing three quarter. Boteju started it around 1992 together with his friend Rajah ‘Dabar’ Adihetty. He gathered some former players including M.T.M.Zarook, Dr. Robert Sourjah, Dr. Abeyratne,Dr. Kenneth Gunawardena, Wilhelm Balthazaar, and Ken de Joodt. Dr. Robert Sourjah was the first chairman with Dr. Kenneth Gunawardena as vice chairman, Kenneth Boteju as secretary, Dabar Adihetty as treasurer.
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