Join the Nelson College Old Boys' Association at a special function to commemorate the first game of rugby between Nelson College and Nelson Rugby Football Club. 

We will also be launching our Legends event, with a Q & A session with our very first "Legend", Old Boy Wyatt Crockett (1994-2000).

Venue: Nelson Rugby Football Club

Light refreshments will be provided, and a cash bar available.

And we will have our special 155 Club Raffle!

Purchase your ticket here to be in to win. 
Only 155 tickets available.

$155 per ticket, with 25 cash prize draws, with first prize going for $3000.

The raffle will now be drawn on June 24th 2025 at the NCOBA Quadrangular Function - At Elmwood Trading Co Bar, Christchurch, from 6pm.

If you can't make it to either event, you can still purchase a ticket!

Also as part of the  Rugby 155 commemorations, we invite you to the unveiling of a headstone at Whakapuaka Cemetery for Edward Silvers Cresswell, a Nelson College Old Boy and NRFC rugby player and Club President for a number of years, who attended the College in 1884-85. Details to follow on this.

RSVP here to attend the event, and/or purchase your raffle tickets.

For any queries, please contact NCOBA Liaison, Lucy Jackson: lj@nelson.school.nz