The original Queensland Chapter of the Christian Brothers’ College Football Club was formed at a meeting held at the Carlton Club Hotel on March 2 1905. Mr. D Carter chaired this meeting which elected Rev T Hayes as Patron, F McDonnell Esq. MLA as President, and J P Rorke as Hon Secretary and Treasurer. The management committee comprised T Gaffney, F Ahern, T J Lehane, P Dwyer, J Bolton, D J O’Connell, V Meaham and C O’Sullivan. It was further decided at this meeting to “play in the school colours, blue and white hoops”. These were the St Joseph’s College Gregory Terrace colours of the time. The new club was primarily formed by old boys of this school, St Joseph’s Nudgee College and St James’ College, also Christian Brothers School’s. In 1905 the team played in plain hoops but the Scottish supplier incorrectly sent navy and white irregular stripes (“butcher stripes”) for the 1906 season and the club has stuck with these ever since, apart from the 1945 season where due to wartime rationing the Club wore a blue jersey with a white vee.

 

Brothers Rugby Union Club of Cairns was founded much later in 1986.

 

The club is a proud member of the greater Brothers Rugby Union fraternity of Australia. With clubs now in every State, Its motto "To Do and To Teach" was bestowed by its Christian Brothers founders and carries forward to the modern game we know today. 

 

Reference: 

BROTHERS IN ARMS – A History of Queensland’s Greatest Rugby Club

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