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Kinnaird Cup 201720/02/17: The initial rounds of 2017 Kinnaird Cup at Eton over the weekend threw up some absolutely fantastic Fives and whittled a relatively small but extremely strong field down to…

Mike Hughes Cup 2017Mark Williams reports:06/02/17: Five schools comprising seven teams entered the inaugural Under 15 team competition for the Mike Hughes Cup, which was an encouraging start; the co…

Under 21s 2017: Young Guns (Go For It)13/02/17: The 2017 Under 21 tournament produced a thrilling day of Fives in arctic conditions at Eton yesterday. Highgate's Phoebe Bracken and Amira Reimer domin…

2017 Northern Tournament: Toop and Wiseman Roll Back The Years06/02/17: An astonishing 73 pairs - a new record - took part in a vintage Northern Tournament over the weekend. The absence due to work c…

Universities Mixed 2017: Liverpool At Last30/01/17: After three successive semi-final defeats - some by agonisingly close margins - the Liverpool University pair of Aroop Bhattacharya and Alice Brett…

Cambridge Coaching Workshop28/01/17: Thirteen fives players took part in a one-day Fives workshop on Saturday at the three wonderful Cambridge University Eton Fives courts. James Powley, the Head of …

A.J.N. (Nick) Dawson (1933-2016)Gerald Barber writes:Nick, with his twin brother Tim, was born on the 1st September 1933.

Girls’ Festival at Charterhouse24/01/17: Paul Bowden reports:This year the annual Girls’ Festival which had been held at Berkhamsted for three years moved to Charterhouse by kind invitation of Master…

REFCA U15s Individual and U14s Three Pair CupHoward Wiseman & Dominique Redmond report:23/01/17: On Sunday the 22nd of January, two REFCA tournaments filled the 14 available courts at Harrow school.

The Cox Self-Invitational Eton Fives Challenge29th December 2016: match report by various CooleysAs 2016 drew to a close, an intrepid band of fives players and assorted hangers-on dodged Christmas re…

EFA ArchivesMost of you will by now be familiar with the new EFA website. You may not have realised that the website now contains an extensive and ever-increasing digital archive of reports, photos, …

EFA Trophy 2017: Bad Weather Fails to Rain on the EFA Trophy Parade16/01/17: For the second year in succession, wet weather and tricky conditions affected the qualifying rounds for the EFA trophy, bu…

New Innovations in Fives Court Building TechnologyJan 2017: The search has been on for a while for a cheaper alternative method of building Fives courts. Could Karen Hird have found the answer?

2017 Ipswich Tournament: Lyle and Lumbard Leave Graves Challengers Dead and Buried09/01/17: With 2016 finally consigned to the scrap heap of history, January 2017 saw the Graves Cup sailing towards t…

Training Day for CoachesPaul Bowden reports:09/01/17: On Sunday 8th January Howard Wiseman ran a four hour training session for those fairly new to Fives coaching in schools.

Festive FivesRalph Morgan reports:23/12/16: On Sunday 18th December, the Old Citizens held their Festive Fives event at Highgate, welcoming strong contingents from the City of London School and the C…

All at C: Fancy Dress Fives at AldenhamPhil Lyndon reports:21/12/16: Players at the Aldenham Heath Fives Club turned out in fancy dress last night (Tuesday 20 December) for an evening of fun and frol…

Three is the Magic Number...19/12/16: Sunday saw the Fives players of North Oxford take on their biennial Three Code Challenge for the third time, with 16 players playing Eton Fives at Eton, Rugby Fi…

2016 Turnbull Trophy: Five in a Row for St.Olave's12/12/16: The Olavian pair of Seb Cooley and Tom Gallagher piled on the records in the 2016 Graham Turnbull Trophy at Eton yesterday with a fifth con…

London Tournament 2016: Harrow - is it three you're looking for?05/12/16: The London Tournament has been back at Harrow for three years now, and 2016 saw a third win out of three for Seb Cooley and T…

150 Up for REFCA28/11/16: Two more hugely successful REFCA junior tournaments took place over the weekend, with Sunday's U12 Individual Tournament their 150th competition.

REFCA Youngsters Aim HighHoward Wiseman & Dominique Redmond report:Nov 2016: The season has got off to a great start and November is a busy month for REFCA's school tournament scene.

150 Years of Fives at Uppingham15/11/16: Nearly 100 OUs and partners gathered in Uppingham on Saturday 12th November to celebrate 150 years of Eton Fives at the School. The game was introduced to Upp…

Fives Stars: Five in a Row for Highgate at the Black Cup14/11/16: Highgate completed a nap hand of successive wins in the Richard Black Cup at Eton yesterady, defeating perennial rivals North Oxford …