[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]S2[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Recent successes: rugby, table tennis. [ESTAT][PARA]Enthusiasm outstrips the facilities.[HDNG]SPORTS FACILITIES:[EHDNG][PARA]Sports hall; multigym; sauna; bowling green; all-weather pitches; 25 acres of fields. Access to the swimming pool in the school next door, and to the River Nene.[HDNG]SPORTING CLUBS:[EHDNG][PARA]Flying; Hang-Gliding; Parachuting.[HDNG]ATTRACTIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]Northampton Rugby Club [ITAL]are local heroes. Less warmly received is Northampton FC (known, accurately as 'The Cobblers') which only avoided being booted out of the Football League at the end of the 93/94 season on a technicality.[EITAL][PARA][PARA]