Though currently operating principally as a masters/grade league club, HSOB has long been prominent in the Canterbury region, and has reached the third round stage of the country's premier knockout competition, the Chatham Cup on ten occasions.

The club was formed in 1957 by a group of former school players, playing their home games at Burnside Park.

They moved to their current home, Edgar MacIntosh Park in the 1960s.

At the beginning of that decade, HSOB won promotion to CFA Division 1, at the time, the Canterbury region's top league.

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