The sixties saw Sandal RUFC move forward with some purpose but without the infrastructure changes which took place during the decade the Club may easily have been a distant memory today. At the end of the 1959/1960 season the 1st XV again won through to the Yorkshire Cup final for the third time, only to be defeated this time by Old Crossleyans at Scatchard Lane, Morley by 9-3. Then during severe gales on 16th February 1962 the original wooden stand built and opened in September 1936 was blown down.
After the Club had plummeted to the depths during the 1962/63 season two new members Don Waddington and Bob Hadfield joined the Committee and with their efforts and inspiration the Club’s first Clubhouse and Bar was built and officially opened on 31st August 1963 at a cost of £2000.
Spurred on by the success of having a Clubhouse at last and the financial returns this gave the Club, the then Chairman, Ken Craven, persuaded the Committee to make another giant leap and build a large two-storey extension to provide a further two bars, baths and changing facilities. The total cost of the new development was £21,000.00. The new premises were officially opened by one of the Club’s founder members R.M.A. (Dickie) Kingswell on 7th April 1967. To celebrate the opening five Headingley players and six Sandal players from the sides which played in 1936 to celebrate the opening of the new ground and stand were brought together.
During this period 99 year leases of two areas of land on either side of the Club ground were finalised, which meant that two additional playing areas could be provided given time. The area to the rear of the Clubhouse was levelled and seeded in 1968, whilst the area behind the stand took a little longer; in fact it took until 1977.

The Consolidating Years (1970-1979)

The early seventies proved to be difficult years financially for the Club and only through the dedication of President, Bert Edmondson, and Honorary Secretary, Jackie Ward, was it able to weather the storm. This situation had arisen following the completion of the Clubhouse extensions in 1967.
The management of the Club was now much more in the hands of a younger, but no less enthusiastic group of retired players and even some who still took the field each Saturday. So whilst the Committee was successfully managing the Club’s financial stability during this period, the 1st XV enjoyed a number of very successful seasons with 1970/71 and 1975/76 being particularly good.
Fifty years of achievement were celebrated at the Club during its Golden Jubilee Year during the 1977/78 season. Fortuitously 1977 coincided with the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and to mark both events the Club held a Golden Jubilee Carvery on Sunday 6th November 1977 in aid of the Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee Appeal Fund and at the end of the afternoon J.R.L.Ward (President) presented the Mayor, Councillor Harry Clafton with a cheque for £50.
During the Jubilee season the civil engineering contractor, Shand Construction Co. Ltd. completed levelling the field behind the Star Public House to create a fourth playing area of almost full size, now known as the “Shand” pitch. It is also interesting to note that throughout the 1979/80 season the Club fielded five sides each Saturday a 1st XV, a Saracens XV, an “A” XV, a “B” XV and a Colts XV. The Colts XV, under the stewardship of Bob Deans and Russ Holmes, won the Yorkshire County Colts Trophy by producing some sparkling rugby to beat Pontefract Colts 24-10 in the final at Selby.