ABSTRACT
Two outstanding personalities who virtually became rugby legends in their own lifetime, A. F. Markotter and later Danie Craven, did much to turn Stellenbosch into the Mecca of twentieth-century South African rugby. For Craven it was the 'task of Stellenbosch to train and provide players for the club, Western Province, and South Africa. But it also had to do more. It had to train players for other clubs and provinces.'6 Stellenbosch Rugby Club regularly took the game further afield through annual tours to the Cape countryside, allowing people in 'areas deprived of the opportunities enjoyed by students' to savour what was considered 'sparkling student rugby'.7
