Home  ⁄  Tag Archives: St. Sylvester’s College

Gavin Stevens R.I.P. Gavin Stevens funeral will be held on Friday the 28th October at the Wilsons Chapel, Springvale Botanical Cemetery. Livestream: https://smct.org.au/upcoming-services/3431218 Under the name of Peter George Stevens.  Antonians attending please wear your College tie. Gavin a prop forward from St. Anthony’s College, who later played for Kandy Lake Club, Kandy Sports Club, Up-Country, Havelock SC and Ceylon, has passed away in Melbourne Australia on Monday morning at the age of 83. Gavin started his schooling with St.Sylvester’s College where he excelled in football and later he joined St. Anthony’s College, Kandy. He was a member of the College 1960 First Eleven Pool of 16 players. During that time Australia also had a cricketer named Gavin Stevens. Our Gavin was more inclined to Rugby and was in the 1959 rugby side, which was the year when St. Anthony’s was accepted as a full 1st XV team and was included in the inter ...

Oct 26, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Obituaries Tagged , ,
Read More →

Sylvestrian Malcolm Bulner was a top class boxer-By Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy has produced some of the top class boxers . This school is situated in the heart of the seat of ancient Sinhala Kings and remains as the one and only school in the country if not in the World to have produced a sportsman who was selected to represent two different countries at two different Olympic games. That is none other than boxer Malcolm Bulner. One of the top class boxers to come out of Kandy was Malcolm Bulner; He was a unique boxer that Kandy and the country produced with an unmatchable record.From the time he sported his gloves at St. Sylvester’s College and up to the time he migrated to Australia he was never beaten by any boxer in our country,No boxer has this record. What is more significant is, as a schoolboy ...

Jul 16, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , ,
Read More →

St. Sylvester’s – boxing champs then, now a force in rugby-By Hafiz Marikar St. Sylvester’s were the third school in Kandy to play rugby Source:Dailynews St. Sylvester’s College, better known for their boxing skills have turned out to be a striking force in school rugby in the recent past. Despite the limited facilities, they have made steady progress in the game while battling many hardships. St. Sylvester’s are hampered to a great extent by the unavailability of a proper playground for the game. Players, however, have no option but to practice on the pint-size grounds at Asgiriya, which hardly have the necessary requirements to play a full contact game. ...

Sep 8, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged
Read More →

Roland Perera – an outstanding cricketer and hockey player-by Upananda Jayasundera Roland Perera (Pic by Upananda Jayasundera) Source:Dailynews Roland Perera an Old Boy of St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy is an outstanding cricketer and a hockey player. He represented his school from 1971 to 1976 as an all-rounder and ended up as the Vice-Captain of the First XI Cricket Team led by Ishak Sahabdeen. His teammates in school were Tikiri Kobbekaduwa (present Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province), Jayantha Keragala, Denlow van Dort and Damien Rodrigo to name a few. ...

May 31, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , ,
Read More →

Mahinda Aluwihare – an iconic Sri Lankan football player-By Hafiz Marikar Mahinda Aluwihare is a product of St. Sylvester’s College Source:Dailynews Kandy have produced some of the most iconic football players in the past and one of the best was Mahinda Aluwihare, a product of St. Sylvester’s College. He is one of those who enjoyed an uninterrupted stay at the top spot. His overwhelming debut as a professional football player quickly resulted in a place in the national team. Aluwihara was one of the best footballers the country has seen in the early days. He was quick, strong, a good ‘header’ and a dribbler of the ball but above all, he possessed a powerful and accurate strike with both legs. ...

May 29, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , , ,
Read More →

Revisiting National Athletics Championships of 1945-by Reemus Fernando Source:Island Sri Lanka Athletics is set to conduct its 98th National Athletics Championships at the Sugathadasa Stadium from Saturday, as it looks forward to provide the competition-starved national athletes an opportunity to weigh in their strengths after being in the sideline for more than a year due to Covid 19 pandemic. In two years Sri Lanka Athletics will celebrate the centenary year. Today we review a National Championship which was held 75 years ago. Sri Lanka Athletics which was then called the Amateur Athletics Association conducted the National Championships of 1945 over two days on October 14 and 15 at the Police Ground, Bambalapitiya. According to Sri Lanka Athletics records, men competed in 15 events while the women’s competition had only four disciplines. Apart from the senior events there had been an invitational school boy event of 440 yards won by G.A. ...

Dec 29, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
Read More →

Commodore Ajith Kumara Boyagoda was a top cricketer and athlete-by Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy has produced several top class cricketers, one of them is Commodore Ajith Kumara Boyagoda famously known as “Boya”. He was an outstanding cricketer and athlete He started his education at St. Anthony’s College and ended at St. Sylvester’s College. He first played cricket while at St. Anthony’s College , started with under 12 in 1964, under 14 in 1966/67 and also excelled in athletics 100 Metres, 200 Metres, long jump and javelin throw, and ended his school career at Katugastota in the year1970 . He joined St Sylvester’s College- in 1971 and played cricket till 1974, and also led the side in his last year 1974, and won cricket colours and the highest award “crown”. His brother Lalith Boyagoda was another top cricketer who led the school side in 1972/73 season. During the ...

Nov 28, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Read More →

eLanka Newsletter – July 4th edition – Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Kerrigan La-Brooy #1 on Aussie Charts for the 2nd Consecutive Week “THE PEARL OF THE EAST” CEYLON – By Des Kelly Open Mike with Emcee Duke Ramachandran TRIBUTE TO COACH “SUNDA” – WRITTEN BY HILARY WHITE Jaffna College Ceylon Miscellany – August 1939 Down memory lane at Aluthmawatha St. Sylvester’s College: The forgotten school that produced top sportsmen without anything-BY HAFIZ MARIKKAR To Prevent further viral Pandemics- become vegetarian or reduce meat consumption-by Harold Gunatillake SCC & SCF – COVID-19 Community Support Program Sri Lankan Street Food by Dish (Sydney) – YOUR TASTE BUDS TOUR OF SRI LANKA CONTINUES ON 12TH JULY ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CEYLON – A LOOK INTO THE PAST – TEA CENTENARY YEAR SOUVENIR 1954 Edition Prasanna Kariyawasam and Umesh Idippily being interviewed at ...

Jul 12, 2020 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , Comments 0
Read More →

St. Sylvester’s College: The forgotten school that produced top sportsmen without anything-BY HAFIZ MARIKKAR Malcolm Bulner (left) the winner & Malcolm Bulner (right) in a fight Source:sundayobserver St. Sylvester’s College has produced some top class sportsmen. This is a school situated in the heart of the seat of ancient Sinhala kings and remains as the one and only school in the country, if not in the whole world, to have produced a sportsman who was selected to represent two different countries at two different Olympic Games. He is none other than Malcolm Bulner, the eldest of the famous Bulner brothers.   He was born on July 9, 1944 and bloomed into a welterweight boxer who represented then Ceylon at the 1962 British Empire (Commonwealth) Games and at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He later went on to represent Australia in international boxing competitions just after participating in the 1964 Summer ...

Jul 6, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged Comments 0
Read More →