FROM HUMBLE
BEGINNINGS
In our first year, we valiantly engaged but lost to our first opponents — undaunted by the fact that we had only 3 experienced players, 10 rookies, and 2 spectators among our ranks. Founded in the fall of 1969 by John DeCoste and Casey McKee, both of whom remained active participants for decades, the Jersey Devils quickly grew into something special.
In 1982, we became the first club in the Eastern United States to build our own regulation-size rugby pitch. Since then, the Garden State Rotary Complex in Cherry Hill has been home to generations of Devils players.
South Jersey tours have taken the Devils across the globe — to England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Canada, Jamaica, and the Bahamas — while hosting visiting teams from Gravesend, London, Bristol, Bath, Stroud, Basingstoke, Newbury, Bargoed, Newport, New Tredegar, and South Africa.
