Melbourne Harlequins
The Melbourne Harlequins Rugby Union Club is an Australian rugby union team formed in 1928. Originally membership was restricted to people born in Britain, but this restriction was removed by the 1950s.[1] Although Rugby is the main sport, the club still plays friendly cricket, golf and darts. One of Melbourne's largest and oldest clubs, Quins promote the ethos of running with the ball in hand. The club has teams in all Junior age groups (U6 to U18), youth girls 7s (U11 and U15) and six Senior teams including a women's team. 1st Grade have been "Dewar Shield" Premiers 4 times in the last 7 seasons (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and the Colts U20 have been Premiers 5 times this decade including an undefeated Premiership season in 2019. On the back of 4 Junior premiership teams in 2019 (U11, U12, U13 and U14) the club claimed their 4th consecutive Cowper Shield Club Championship as the best overall performing club in Victoria.
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| Union | Australian Rugby Union | |
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| Branch | Victorian Rugby Union | |
| Nickname(s) | Quins | |
| Founded | 1928 | |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia | |
| Region | Melbourne Eastern suburbs - Ashwood | |
| Ground(s) | Ashwood Reserve (Capacity: 3,000) | |
| President | Brock Parker | |
| Director of Rugby | Peter Dawson | |
| Coach(es) | Chris Allen, Andrew Whiteman & Paul Graham | |
| Captain(s) | Angus Hamilton & Denise Rimoni | |
| Most caps | Neil Carter | |
| Top scorer | Justin Marsters (2019) | |
| League(s) | Dewar Shield | |
| 2019 | 3rd | |
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| Official website | ||
| www | ||
Boasting Melbourne's best rugby facilities, the club's main field in 2019 underwent a $1 million upgrade to create a premium national standard playing surface coupled with a full replay electronic scoreboard being installed and regularly hosts Melbourne Rebels, Melbourne Rising and Rugby Victoria representative teams games and training.
Club colours
According to the constitution the club colours are Black, Maroon, Sage Green and Pale Blue. These have been further defined very specifically by the club as being:
| Colour name | PMS | RGB | HTML | Example | Note |
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| Black | Pantone Black | 26 23 27 | #1A171B | ||
| Maroon | 209c | 117 38 61 | #75263D | ||
| Sage green | 361c | 30 181 58 | #1EB53A | ||
| Pale blue | 278c | 153 186 221 | #99BADD | ||
| Gold | 1235 | 252 181 20 | #FCB514 | This colour is only to be used when gold thread is used to embroider the Jester on jacket pockets and the like. |