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Memories of Burgmann
Lights Out, Legends Made
Let me take you back to a relatively mild May evening in 2016 where Burgmann College was set to face Johns in yet another rugby league grand final. It had been 20 years since Burgmann last won the competition. Hair was braided, faces were painted, and some teeth were lost, as the women of Burgmann and Johns showed us all how the game should really be played.
Memories of Burgmann
Burg Rugby Win 1996
Sunday, 9 June 1996. Willows Oval. A battle-hardened squad of rugby league diehards, forged through late-night training sessions and nourished by Helga's cooking, ran out against our rivals next door on Daley Road. What followed became Burgmann legend. Under the strategic genius of Supercoach Colin Bienke, the 1996 Grand Final team did what they set out to do — and did it memorably.
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Burg Day 2026
Every year, at an hour no reasonable person would call acceptable, Burgmann wakes up and does something wonderfully strange. Burg Day — now 55 years old — kicked off with a confession to patron saint St Beryl (bricks, apparently, will fall otherwise), before descending into a triathlon involving foundational bricks, a dip in Sullivan's Creek, and a stomach-churning concoction called Irongut.