Robert Doherty (12 February 1870 – 19 December 1942) was an
English rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
footballer for the
St. Helens club in the English
Championship
In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion.
Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
In this sys ...
competition. He played as a
three-quarter back.
Doherty played in the first
Challenge Cup
The Rugby Football League Challenge Cup, commonly known just as the Challenge Cup is a Single-elimination tournament, knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, it is the world's old ...
final for St Helens on the wing.
References
External links
St Helens Heritage Society profile
1870 births
1942 deaths
19th-century English sportsmen
20th-century English sportsmen
English rugby league players
Lancashire rugby league team players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league players from Kendal
Rugby league wingers
St Helens R.F.C. players
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