Malvern Sports Club, de­scribed as an in­sti­tu­tion of class, was found­ed in June 1942 at Siegert Square in Wood­brook when a group of friends and fam­i­ly mem­bers took the de­ci­sion to for­mal­ize a loose al­liance in­to a club for the pur­pose of play­ing com­pet­i­tive foot­ball.

So come June the club will, there­fore, cel­e­brate its 75th an­niver­sary and a num­ber of events will be held through­out the year to mark that spe­cial oc­ca­sion.

Its first Pres­i­dent was renowned jour­nal­ist, George John with the first ex­ec­u­tive com­pris­ing Lennox Pierre as vice pres­i­dent, James Grosvenor, sec­re­tary, Hamil Hen­ley, the trea­sur­er and John.

The club colours of wine and white and the de­sign of the for the club jer­sey were the ideas of Er­rol John, dis­tin­guished play­wright and broth­er of George. The club mot­to "Vic­to­ria Con­cor­dia Cresc­it" was al­so for­malised at the in­cep­tion.

Malvern quick­ly made its pres­ence felt on the foot­ball field and its most out­stand­ing achieve­ment was the de­feat of the Ja­maica na­tion­al team in 1947.

In that very year the en­tire Malvern for­ward line of Carl­ton "Put­ty" Lewis, Carl­ton "Squeakie" Hinds, Fe­do Blake, Phil Douglin and Lio Lynch was se­lect­ed to play against the then British Guiana. Malvern's foot­ball team al­so de­feat­ed Bar­ba­dos in 1950 and St. Vin­cent in 1968.

While the ear­ly years were the most suc­cess­ful, the club's foot­ballers un­der Carl­ton "the Gen­er­al"Fran­co, thrilled foot­ball spec­ta­tors in the ear­ly six­ties with an ex­cit­ing brand of foot­ball dubbed the "cha cha cha" or danc­ing foot­ball which brought the club many tro­phies.

In re­cent years the stan­dard of foot­ball with­in the club has de­clined but with the cel­e­bra­tions planned, a resur­gence is ex­pect­ed.

In 2015 our first women's foot­ball team was es­tab­lished. While not ter­ri­bly suc­cess­ful, the team con­tin­ues to im­prove and we do ex­pect to have a vi­brant suc­cess­ful team in the fu­ture.

Malvern al­so played crick­et with­out the same de­gree of suc­cess, but was pro­mot­ed to the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions with­out be­ing able to com­pete at the top lev­el con­sis­tent­ly. Noel Robin­son was se­lect­ed for na­tion­al team in 1962 and Frankie Ra­goonath was one of the five crick­eters of the year in 1966.Sub­se­quent­ly, the de­ci­sion was tak­en to stop play­ing crick­et.

The oth­er ma­jor sport played by the club was field hock­ey. Malvern men hock­ey team was with­out a doubt the most out­stand­ing team in the 20th cen­tu­ry, be­ing crowned na­tion­al cham­pi­ons for the first ten years the com­pe­ti­tion was played. This was main­ly due to the in­spi­ra­tion and guid­ance of Ian Har­ris who al­so cap­tained the na­tion­al team and sub­se­quent­ly be­came a na­tion­al coach.

In 1982, ten play­ers from the club were se­lect­ed for the na­tion­al team to the CAC Games. The club al­so won two in­ter­na­tion­al club tour­na­ments, the first in Penn­syl­va­nia, USA, in 1980 and in 1985 in Cu­ra­cao.

The club is en­ter­ing an ex­cit­ing phase with the un­der 21 and the se­nior team be­ing crowned in­door cham­pi­ons re­cent­ly and play­ers the Mar­cano broth­ers and the Em­manuel broth­ers and Lyn­dell By­er rep­re­sent­ing the coun­try.

The women team has not had the same de­gree of suc­cess but has con­sis­tent­ly been among the top teams and has had na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion from Michele Gor­don, Mar­garet Hinds and Pene­lope Stephens in the ear­li­er years and Sher­lan Cabralis, Tere­sa Leza­ma and Kher­dine Gon­za­les , more re­cent­ly.

Malvern's mem­bers Gre­go­ry Lewis, Hy­po­lite Sosa, Lance Pierre, Carl­ton Hinds, Vere Greer and Ald­wyn His­lop have been in­duct­ed in­to the na­tion­al sports Hall of Fame.

Malvern will there­fore, look back with pride at its first 75 years and look for­ward with ea­ger an­tic­i­pa­tion to­wards its cen­tu­ry cel­e­bra­tions in 2042.