These matches proved to be a very popular and the possibility of starting an official club was put forward.

A meeting was held at the Prince of Wales School and the Old Cambrians Club was launched.

A decision was made to re-launch the club under the name Impala RFC, with many of the old players and coaching staff staying on.

This led to a return in strength of the club, and in 1959 they enjoyed an unbeaten season (though ironically this powerful team were not allowed to enter the Enterprise Cup competition due to vagaries in the then qualification process which required them to have finished in the top three of the previous year's Nairobi District Championship).

[1] They won the Enterprise Cup consecutively for four years from 1971 to 1974 and several seven-a-side tournaments during the same period.