Outstanding team achievements
Team highlights
1927: Women’s Hockey
Top of the Southern Transvaal First League; Jennie Jacobson and Emmie Hartmann represent South Africa
1929: Swimming
In 1929 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ won the first South African intervarsity gala held in Pretoria. In the thirties the University dominated the event, winning it in seven successive years. Much of this success was due to the coaching of Tom Ferguson. He was rated on one international list as the eighth best swimming coach in the world. He served in his position for 23 years until his death in December 1952.
1935 – 1940: Athletics
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the Dalrymple Cup for a record six successive years
1951 – 1969: Golf
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins 17 of 19 intervarsities
1953: Rugby
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ is rated strongest university team; Clive Ulyate, Wilf Rosenberg and Joe Kaminer picked for Springbok sides
1953: Athletics
Elaine Winter scores all the points for Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ to win the Roger Dyason Shield; she later represents South Africa at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games
1953/54: Cricket
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the Lionel Phillips trophy
1957/58: Cricket
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the Transvaal Premier League for the first of several times
1967: Rugby
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the Pirates Grand Challenge
1967 – 1976: Men’s Hockey
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the Southern Transvaal Premier League and SAU tournament five times and produces nine Springboks
1977: Baseball
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the national inter-club competition
1977: Men’s Basketball
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins the South African club championships
1978 – 2017: Soccer
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ wins eight major football cup competitions, beginning with the Mainstay Cup
1980: Rowing
The entire 1980 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ squad are awarded Springbok colours
1981: Men’s Indoor Hockey
First success in the South African ‘Champion of Champions’ tournament (again in 1986)
1982: Yachting
A Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ crew sails in the Cape to Uruguay race
1984 : Basketball
Men’s and women’s teams won their respective provincial and SAU competitions
1986: Skydiving
A team of four establishes a world first outside the United States, completing the difficult ‘four-by-side’ manoeuvre
1986-88: Rowing
The boat club wins three successive South African championships; Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ win the first women’s race on the Kowie River
1996/97: Soccer
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ is the first PSL side to beat Pirates, Chiefs and Sundowns in the same season
2000 – 10: Women’s Hockey
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ produces five Proteas
2010
Bidvest Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ are crowned the Nedbank Cup champions at the newly-revamped Soccer City Stadium
2014: Basketball
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Lady Bucks achieve gold at the USSA tournament
2016/17: Soccer
Bidvest Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ raise the Absa Premiership trophy
2017
34 medals in Tang Soo Do at World Martial Arts Games
2018: Basketball
Victory at Varsity Sports
2018: Soccer
Final of Varsity Football
2018 /19: Hockey
Top in the Southern Gauteng Premier League; USSA title
2019
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Rugby wins Pirates Grand Challenge for only the second time in 100 years
2020
Students sail JMBusha 54 yacht in Cape 2 Rio race; placed third