 | Racing Club (Warwick) FC |
| This page is part of the archive of community profiles and was written in May 2003. |
|  Racing Club Warwick FC has become an integral part of our historic town in the 84 years it has nestled in Hampton Street at Warwick racecourse. Their name has become synonymous with sportsmanship, supportive youth training and a strong community spirit.
The football club, which was formed in 1919 under the name of Saltisford Rovers, initially spent many years playing in the local junior leagues. The club’s heyday was from 1947 to 1954 when they won a number of trophies, including the Leamington and District League, the Warwickshire Combination, the West Midlands League and the Midland Combination prior to joining the Southern League in 1989-90. |
|  The club has also picked up the Warwick Cinderella Cup for four seasons up to 1939, the TG John Cup 1936-37, the Leamington Hospital Cup before and after the last war and the Leamington Junior Cup.
Five people can rightly claim to have put Racing Club Warwick back on the football map – Eddie Haines, Pete Walker, Jack Brown, Jim Wright and Pat Murphy. |
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 The club has various youth and local community activities geared to enable people of all ages to output their personal and creative interests. These include Warwick First and Youth Football Club, Leamington Hibs Football Team, boxing, arts and crafts, music and film facilities, Age Concern, a ladies’ football team and computer and Internet access.
Warwick First Team is also competing in the Dr Marten Football League Western Division and are currently facing relegation.
 Leamington Hibs Football Team are based here at Racing Club Warwick but compete in the Midlands Football Combination, Leamington at District Sunday Football League and Local Boys’ Football Leagues.
 Music and film facillities are also well catered for at Warwick FC. The club has dvd recording and mini-dv camera, plus music making and editing of movies via Mac computers. Music creation can be done through a keyboard and also edited via Mac. If you are part of a community group and would like to receive training to use the equipment Racing Club can help.
Holding Your Ground is a project run by Racing Club Warwick and an arts training provider based at the club. The aim of the project is to record the history of the football club and the people and places in the west of Warwick. If you have any history about your life, people that you knew or memories of the football club or surrounding areas, please contact the club.
To contact the club about any of the community activities please telephone 01926 495786 or 408608, send an e-mail to racingwarwickfc@btclick.com or visit their website at warkcom.net/racingclubwarwickfc |
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 Another string to Warwick FC’s bow is its boxing club; an established facility in the local area, it is well equipped and spacious. It is run by Jack Turpin, brother of the late great Randolph Turpin, one of Britain’s best known boxers, who took the World middleweight championship off Sugar Ray Robinson on 10 July 1951.
Jack was also an accomplished boxer in his own right, having started boxing at amateur level aged 11. His first fight was against a 16-year-old whom he defeated, before later joining the Royal Navy at the age of 16.
After leaving the Navy, Jack turned professional at bantam weight although he later increased his weight to featherweight. After some 180 fights Jack retired from boxing to coach local youngsters. Jack has now handed the reigns of coaching to Steve Myrie, a good amateur fighter, but still plays a role in the running of the gym. |
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