Season Archives

2001 Ladies ChampionshipsHoward Wiseman reports:A different format was used this year, which combined both the Mixed and the Ladies Open into one day.

2000/01 Keeling CupMalcolm Keeling reports:After last season's rather special millennium tournament, raising funds for charity in memory of Tony Hughes, we reverted to the usual procedure this year, …

Mark Williams reports: Two hundred and forty-five pairs from twenty-three different schools contested this year's Championships at Harrow School. The format was much as before, with a Pools stage in…

2001 Prep Schools' Tournament

2001 EFA TrophyEd Taylor reports:Six sides were drawn up for this year's contest - a nice number. Two round robin pools of three, allowing proper three game matches...

First Round The Old Carthusians, Aldenhamians, Berkhamstedians, Harrovians, Cranleighans and Reptonians were swiftly smote in the first conflict. Actually I'm not sure smote is the right word...for …

2001 Varsity MatchRodney Knight reports:'Blitzspiel' by Cambridge overturns favourites!Three games of vividly aggressive Fives by the light blue first pair and strong supporting performances in the o…

2001 Williams Cup

2001 Northern TournamentAndrew Mitchell reports:As usual, late entries and even later withdrawals lead to several last minute drafts and redrafts of draws in both competitions, but unusually prompt a…

2001 Ipswich TournamentTim Fletcher reports:Once again in an attempt to fend off the winter blues and to work off the Christmas excesses many players - Old Ipswichians, School pupils, staff and guest…

2000/01 County ChampionshipsAnthony Crump reports:Six Counties participated - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Middlesex, Sussex and Warwickshire.

2000 London TournamentSanjaya Ranasinghe reports:For the fourth year running, the London Tournament at Highgate attracted roughly sixty players. There were welcomed newcomers from Lancing School and …

Geoffrey Bolt (1923-2000)Geoffrey Bolt as Master-in-Charge of Fives at Aldenham and latterly, Cranleigh, will be remembered as an outstanding coach. He brought out the maximum talent in his players t…

2000 Universities TournamentJames Toop reports:The first year of the new British Universities Eton Fives Championships saw ten pairs from four different universities, Cambridge, Loughborough, Oxford …

Marlborough Millenium TournamentHoward Wiseman reports:This event was a one-off! Organised over one year ahead of time, Julian Pinner entered for the wrong year! The aim was to unite, in the year of …

2000 Under 25 TournamentWith temperatures hovering around zero 12 pairs braved the cold and icy roads to gather at Eton for the Year 2000 Under 25's National Championships on Sunday 19th December. It…

EFA League Tables 2000/01

Martin Shortland-Jones (1930-2000)(extract from the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 2000/01)The untimely death of our President, has left the Eton Fives' world bereft.

Fives Goes TravellingA visit to Engadin, Zuoz July 2000 This report by Paul Thompson first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual report 2000/01Some had thought that it was mighty ambitious tr…

Jack Gaywood (1914-2000)Jack Gaywood was, for many years, Honorary Secretary of the Old Cholmeleian Fives Club, later President, a member of the EFA Committee and at one time the EFA's Honorary Audit…

2000 Aldenham TournamentGraham Pulsford reports:The year 2000 Heath Tournament took place at Aldenham School on Sunday 16th April in ideal conditions for fives. The sun shone brightly and thanks to t…

Torry Hill's 75th AnniversaryMike Fenn reports:On the 5th May 2000 the Charitable Trust held its twenty-second committee meeting at Torry Hill Estate, Sittingbourne, Kent as guests of the Patron of t…

2000 Veterans TournamentPeter Knowles reports:The sixteenth Over 40s Tournament took place at Eton on Sunday 7th May. Like several other tournaments this year the entry was down on previous years, pe…

Fives at High ElmsThis Article by Alan Chadwick (Old Olavian) first appeared on the original EFA website in April 2000When his sons returned from Eton enthusing about a new game they had discovered S…