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1879–80 Home Nations Rugby Union Matches
The 1879–80 Home Nations rugby union matches were a series of international rugby union friendlies held between the England national rugby union team, England, Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland and Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union teams. The only recognised competition held between the countries was the annual Calcutta Cup match, contested between England and Scotland. It was the second challenge for the Cup. Scoring system The matches for this season were decided on goals scored. A goal was awarded for a successful conversion after a Try (rugby), try, for a dropped goal or for a goal from mark. If a game was drawn, any unconverted tries were tallied to give a winner. If there was still no clear winner, the match was declared a draw. Matches Ireland vs. England ;Ireland: RB Walkington (North of Ireland FC, NIFC), AM Whitestone (Dublin University Football Club, Dublin University), JC Bagot (Dublin University Football Club, Dublin Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an Rugby ball, oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped Goal (sports)#Structure, goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people regardless of gender, age or size. In 2023, there were more than 10 million people playing worldwide, of whom 8.4 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackheath F
Blackheath may refer to: Places England * Blackheath, London, England ** Blackheath (Lewisham ward), an electoral ward for the Lewisham London Borough Council ** Blackheath railway station ** Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England * Blackheath, Surrey, England ** Hundred of Blackheath, Surrey ** Blackheath SSSI, Surrey, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest * Blackheath, West Midlands, England Other places *Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia *Black Heath, Virginia, USA, a late 18th and 19th century plantation and coal mine *Blackheath, an industrial quarter of Cape Town, South Africa * Blackheath, Gauteng, in Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ..., South Africa Education * Blackheath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Schofield (rugby Union)
John Wood Schofield (10 March 1858 – 3 May 1931) was an English international rugby union player. A native of Manchester, Schofield was the son of a local alderman and attended Uppingham School. Schofield, a stockbroker by profession, played for the Manchester Rugby Club and began appearing in their first XV during the 1878–79 season. He got his first opportunity to appear for Lancashire soon when forward Ellis Markendale pulled out of a match against Yorkshire, then earned further representative honours in the 1878–79 Home Nations series, as a late England call up to play against Ireland in Dublin. See also *List of England national rugby union players This article represents a list of people who have played for the England national rugby union team, in the order that they received their first Cap (sport), cap. The list only includes players who have played in an official Test match (rugby union ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schofield, John 1858 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Rowley
Hugh Campbell Rowley (27 April 1858 – after 1882) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1870s and 1880s. He played at representative level for England from 1879 to 1882, and at club level for Bowdon and Lymm Club, and Manchester Rugby Club, as a forward. Early life Rowley was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, the son of solicitor and first-class cricketer James Campbell Rowley.''1861 England Census'' His uncles Alexander Rowley and Edmund Rowley, and cousin Ernest Rowley, were also first-class cricketers. Rugby union career Rowley was originally a member of the Bowdon and Lymm Club, and was selected from this club to represent the county of Cheshire in the first match between Cheshire and Lancashire on 24 February 1877. He had the distinction of scoring the first try in that match, and the first point of importance against Lancashire. Ironically, Rowley then went on to play in and for Lancashire, transferring to the Manchester Football Club, and representin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Woodhead
Ernest Woodhead (2 February 1857 – 10 June 1944) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Huddersfield, as a forward, e.g. front row, lock, or back row. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Huddersfield was a rugby union club. Background Ernie Woodhead was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was the son of Joseph Woodhead, Liberal Party Member of parliament for Spen Valley, he died aged 87 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Playing career Ernie Woodhead won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in 1880 against Ireland. Political career He was active for the Liberal Party in Huddesfield local politics for many years, being a member of Huddesfield Borough Council, including serving as Mayor of Huddesfield. For the 1918 General Election he stood as Liberal Party candidate for Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vernon (cricketer)
George Frederick Vernon (20 June 1856 – 10 August 1902) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club. He also played one Test match for England during the first-ever Ashes tour in 1882-83. Biography Vernon was the son of George Vernon of 32 Montagu Square. He was educated at Rugby School, and first appeared at Lord's as a member of the Rugby eleven in 1873, and was captain in 1874. He later went on to play 103 first-class games for Middlesex. Besides the 1882–83 tour, he also toured Australia in 1887–88. Vernon toured India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1889-90 as the leader of a team of amateurs, of which the other notable player was Lord Hawke. The other players could not really be said to be first-class, but the team was of a quality much higher than any seen in India at that time. This was the first ever tour by a foreign team to India. They won seven games and drew another before they were due to play the Parsi Gymkh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakefield Trinity
Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The club play their home fixtures at the DIY Kitchen Stadium, Belle Vue (Wakefield), Belle Vue and currently compete in the Super League, the top tier of the British rugby league system. The club was one of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Rugby Football League, Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. They have won the List of British rugby league champions, League Championship twice and Challenge Cup five times. Wakefield have local rivalries with Castleford Tigers and Featherstone Rovers as well as Leeds Rhinos. Their traditional kit colours are white with a red or blue V. Between 1999 and 2016 the club was known as Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. History Early years The club's predecessor was The Young Mens Society, formed in 1867 by the Holy Trinity Church to promote sports, with the team itself formed in 1873 alongside a similarly named athletics club, Wakefield Trinity C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barron Kilner
Barron Kilner (11 October 1852 – 28 December 1922) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s, and rugby union administrator of the 1890s. He played at representative level for England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (were a rugby union club at the time), as a forward, e.g. front row, lock, or back row. Prior to 27 August 1895, Wakefield Trinity was a rugby union club. Barron Kilner was also Mayor of Wakefield in 1899.Tony Collins, "Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League football age-157. Taylor & Francis 2006" Background Barron Kilner was born in Thornhill Lees, West Riding of Yorkshire, and he died aged 70 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Playing career International honours Barron Kilner won a cap for England while at Wakefield Trinity in the 1879–80 Home Nations rugby union match against Ireland. County honours Kilner represented Yorkshire while at Wakefield Trinity. "The Rugby Match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gurdon
Charles Gurdon (3 December 1855 – 26 June 1931) was an English barrister, judge, rower and rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cambridge University and Richmond. Gurdon represented England fourteen times during the early development of international rugby union, once as captain. He and his brother Edward Temple Gurdon formed one of the most notable sibling pairings in English rugby. Life and legal career Gurdon was born in Barnham Broom, Norfolk, in 1855, the second son of Rev Edward Gurdon. He was educated at Haileybury School before matriculating to Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1874. He was a member of the Pitt Club at Cambridge. His elder brother Edward Temple and younger brother Francis also studied at Cambridge; Francis entered the clergy, becoming the Bishop of Hull. Gurdon chose to enter the legal profession and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1877. He received his BA in 1878, and was called to the Bar in 1881. From 1923 to 1929 he was a County Court j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Cheltonians
Cheltenham College is a public school ( fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The school opened in 1841 as a Church of England foundation and is known for its outstanding linguistic, military, and sporting traditions. History Two Cheltenham residents, G. S. Harcourt and J. S. Iredell, founded the college in July 1841 to educate the sons of gentlemen. The plan to establish a "Proprietary Grammar School" had been agreed at a meeting of residents at Harcourt's home on 9 November 1840.Michael Croke Morgan, (1968), ''Cheltenham College: The First Hundred Years'', page 219, (published for the Cheltonian Society by Sadler) It originally opened in three houses along Bays Hill Terrace in the centre of the town. Within two years it had moved to its present site, with Boyne House as the first College Boarding House, and soon became known simply as Cheltenham College. Accepting both boarding and day boys, it was divided into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Neame
Stuart Neame (1856-1936) was a rugby union international who represented England from 1879 to 1880. Early life Stuart Neame was born on 15 June 1856 in Preston-next-Faversham, the son of Frederick Neame and Mary Tassell. He attended Cheltenham College.Marshall, Francis, ''Football, The Rugby Union Game'', (1892) Rugby union career Neame made his international debut for England on 10 March 1879 in the match against Scotland match at Edinburgh. Of the four matches he played for his national side the team won three times, and drew once. He played his final match for England on 28 February 1880 against Scotland at Whalley Range, Manchester Whalley Range is an area of Manchester, England, south-west of the Manchester city centre, city centre. The population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 15,430. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it was o .... References 1856 births 1936 deaths English rugby union players England international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Jackson (rugby Union)
Allan Heslop Jackson (12 August 1858 – 15 July 1912) was an English international rugby union player. Jackson, the son of a barrister, was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica. A halfback, Jackson made both of his appearances for England against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, in 1878 and 1880. He played at club level for Blackheath and Guy's Hospital. Jackson was married in 1887 to Eva Ray. He was a general practitioner by profession. See also *List of England national rugby union players This article represents a list of people who have played for the England national rugby union team, in the order that they received their first Cap (sport), cap. The list only includes players who have played in an official Test match (rugby union ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Allan 1858 births 1912 deaths English rugby union players England international rugby union players Sportspeople from Spanish Town Rugby union halfbacks Blackheath F.C. players Guy's Hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
