1874-75 Home Nations rugby union matches
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The 1874-75 Home Nations rugby union matches are a series of international friendlies held between the England
, Ireland
and Scotland
national rugby union
teams. This season of games was notable as it saw the first international appearance of the Ireland team.
, 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.
(Guy's Hospital
), L Stokes
(Blackheath), William Henry Milton
(Marlborough Nomads
), AT Michell (Oxford University
), EH Nash (Oxford University
), WE Collins
(St George's Hospital
), FR Adams
(Richmond
), Thomas Batson
(Blackheath), EC Cheston
(Richmond
), Charles Crosse
(Oxford University
), EC Fraser (Oxford University
), HJ Graham (Wimbeldon Hornets
), JDG Graham (Wimbledon Hornets
), WHH Hutchinson
(Hull), Henry Arnold Lawrence
(Richmond
) capt., Francis Luscombe
(Gipsies
), JEH Mackinlay
(St George's Hospital
), Murray Marshall
(Blackheath), ES Perrott
(Old Chestonians), Dawson Turner
(Richmond
), Roger Walker
(Manchester
)
Ireland: RB Walkington (NIFC
), HL Cox (Dublin University
), RJ Bell (NIFC
), AP Cronyn (Dublin University
), R Galbraith (Dublin University
), J Myles (Dublin University
), EN McIlwaine (NIFC
), WS Allen (Wanderers), G Andrews (NIFC
), WH Ash (NIFC
), M Barlow (Wanderers), BN Casement (Dublin University
), A Combe (NIFC
), W Gaffikin (Windsor), E Galbraith (Dublin University
), FT Hewson (Wanderers), JA McDonald (Methodist College), RM Maginess (Dublin University
), G Stack (Dublin University
) capt., HD Walsh (Dublin University
)
----
) capt., T Chalmers (Glasgow Academicals
), Malcolm Cross
(Glasgow Academicals
), Ninian Finlay
(Edinburgh Academicals), HM Hamilton (West of Scotland), JK Todd (Glasgow Academicals
), JR Hay-Gordon (Edinburgh Academicals), Allen Arthur
(Glasgow Academicals
), JW Dunlop (West of Scotland), AP Finlay
(Edinburgh Academicals), GR Fleming (Glasgow Academicals
), G Heron (Glasgow Academicals
), RW Irvine
(Edinburgh Academicals), A Marshall (Edinburgh Academicals), JAW Mein (Edinburgh Academicals), AG Petrie (Royal HSFP), J Reid
(Edinburgh Wanderers), D Robertson (Edinburgh Academicals), A Wood (Royal HSFP)
England: AW Pearson
(Blackheath), Reg Birkett
(Clapham Rovers
), S Morse
(Marlborough Nomads
), AT Michell (Oxford University
), WAD Evanson (Civil Service
), WE Collins
(St George's Hospital
), FR Adams
(Richmond
), James Bush (Clifton
), EC Cheston
(Richmond
), WRB Fletcher
(Marlborough Nomads
), JSM Genth (Manchester
), HJ Graham (Wimbeldon Hornets
), Edward Kewley
(Liverpool
), Henry Arnold Lawrence
(Richmond
) capt., Francis Luscombe
(Gipsies
), Murray Marshall
(Blackheath), S Parker (Liverpool
), JE Paul
(RIE College
), Dawson Turner
(Richmond
)
England national rugby union team
The England national rugby union team represents England in rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales. They have won this championship on 26 occasions, 12 times winning the Grand Slam, making them the most successful team in...
, Ireland
Ireland national rugby union team
The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...
and Scotland
Scotland national rugby union team
The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...
national rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
teams. This season of games was notable as it saw the first international appearance of the Ireland team.
Results
Scoring system
The matches for this season were decided on goals scored. A goal was awarded for a successful conversion after a tryTry
A try is the major way of scoring points in rugby league and rugby union football. A try is scored by grounding the ball in the opposition's in-goal area...
, for a dropped goal or for a goal from mark
Goal from mark
A goal from mark is a former scoring move in rugby football. It occurred when a player "marked" the ball by making a fair catch and shouting "mark". From this position the player could not be tackled. The player then had the option of a free kick, which can be taken as a place, drop, or tap kick...
. 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.
England vs. Ireland
England: AW PearsonAlexander William Pearson
Alexander "Alec" William Pearson was a rugby union international who represented England from 1875 to 1878. He was described as late as 1925 as "about as fíne a full back as ever played", and was the first Australian born rugby union international.-Early life and family:Alexander William Pearson...
(Guy's Hospital
Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club
Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club is the name given to the modern amalgam of three formerly distinct hospital rugby clubs each with a long history, having all been founded in the nineteenth century. The teams from Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital were the first to merge...
), L Stokes
Lennard Stokes
Dr. Lennard Stokes was a rugby union international who represented England from 1875 to 1881. He also captained his country on five occasions, notably in the first ever match against Wales...
(Blackheath), William Henry Milton
William Henry Milton
Sir William Henry Milton was the 3rd Administrator of Mashonaland, played rugby for England and was South Africa's second cricket captain....
(Marlborough Nomads
Marlborough Nomads
The Marlborough Nomads was a 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures....
), AT Michell (Oxford University
Oxford University RFC
The Oxford University Rugby Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Oxford. The club contests The Varsity Match every year against Cambridge University at Twickenham.-History:...
), EH Nash (Oxford University
Oxford University RFC
The Oxford University Rugby Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Oxford. The club contests The Varsity Match every year against Cambridge University at Twickenham.-History:...
), WE Collins
William Collins (sportsman, born 1853)
William Edward Collins MB MRCS CMG was a sportsman and politician...
(St George's Hospital
St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC
St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world having been founded in 1863. The side is notable for its long history, its participation in the oldest competition in rugby, the United Hospitals Cup, as well as having produced a large number of international...
), FR Adams
Frank Reginald Adams
Frank Adams was a rugby union international who represented England from 1875 to 1879. He also captained his country.-Early life:Frank Adams was born in 1852, the second son of Frank Adams and Ellen Straith...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
), Thomas Batson
Thomas Batson
Thomas Batson was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1875.-Rugby union career:Batson made his international debut on February 5th, 1872 at The Oval in the England vs Scotland match....
(Blackheath), EC Cheston
Ernest Cheston
Ernest Cheston was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1876.-Early life:Ernest Cheston was born on 24 October 1848 in Hackney the sixth son of Chester Cheston of Clapton. He attended Haileybury and Imperial Service College where he was the captain of the school rugby XX...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
), Charles Crosse
Charles Crosse
Charles William Crosse was an English sportsman who played international rugby union for England and first-class cricket....
(Oxford University
Oxford University RFC
The Oxford University Rugby Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Oxford. The club contests The Varsity Match every year against Cambridge University at Twickenham.-History:...
), EC Fraser (Oxford University
Oxford University RFC
The Oxford University Rugby Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Oxford. The club contests The Varsity Match every year against Cambridge University at Twickenham.-History:...
), HJ Graham (Wimbeldon Hornets
Wimbledon RFC
Wimbledon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from Wimbledon, London. The club was a founding member of the Rugby Football Union and were at that time known as the Wimbledon Hornets.-History:Wimbledon’s first recorded match was against Richmond F.C...
), JDG Graham (Wimbledon Hornets
Wimbledon RFC
Wimbledon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from Wimbledon, London. The club was a founding member of the Rugby Football Union and were at that time known as the Wimbledon Hornets.-History:Wimbledon’s first recorded match was against Richmond F.C...
), WHH Hutchinson
William Hutchinson (rugby)
William Henry Heap Hutchinson was a rugby union footballer of the 1870s who at representative level played for England, and at club level for Hull, playing in the Forwards, e.g. Front row, Lock, or Back row...
(Hull), Henry Arnold Lawrence
Henry Arnold Lawrence
Henry Arnold Lawrence was a rugby union forward who played club rugby for Richmond F.C. and international rugby for England. He was the third captain of the England rugby team.-Personal life:...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
) capt., Francis Luscombe
Francis Luscombe
Francis Luscombe was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1876. He also captained his country.-Early life:Francis Luscombe was born on 1849 in Norwood, then in Surrey...
(Gipsies
Gipsies Football Club
The Gipsies Football Club was a short lived 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures.-History:The Gipsies...
), JEH Mackinlay
James Mackinlay
James Mackinlay was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1875.-Early life:James Mackinlay was born on December 17, 1850 in Guildford. He attended Oxford University and went on to study medicine at St...
(St George's Hospital
St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC
St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world having been founded in 1863. The side is notable for its long history, its participation in the oldest competition in rugby, the United Hospitals Cup, as well as having produced a large number of international...
), Murray Marshall
Murray Marshall
Murray Marshall was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1878. He also captained his country.-Early life:Murray Marshall was born 7 October 1852 in Guildford and baptised on 3 November 1852 in the parish of St Peter and St Paul, Godalming. His parents were Murray and...
(Blackheath), ES Perrott
Edward Perrott
Edward Perrott was a rugby union international who represented England in 1875.-Early life:Edward Perrott was born on 16 September 1851 in Bronhyddron, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, the eldest of the eight children of Robert Simcocks Perrott and Elizabeth Ann Owen...
(Old Chestonians), Dawson Turner
Dawson Turner (rugby union)
For the English banker and botanist see Dawson Turner.Dawson Turner was a rugby union international who represented England from 1871 to 1875.-Early life:...
(Richmond
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
), Roger Walker
Roger Walker (rugby)
Roger Walker was a rugby union forward who played club rugby for Manchester Rugby Club and international rugby for England...
(Manchester
Manchester Rugby Club
Manchester Rugby Club, formerly known as Manchester Football Club, are one of the oldest rugby union clubs in existence, having been founded in 1860, 11 years before the RFU....
)
Ireland: RB Walkington (NIFC
North of Ireland FC
North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were formed earlier anywhere else in all Ireland . It was...
), HL Cox (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), RJ Bell (NIFC
North of Ireland FC
North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were formed earlier anywhere else in all Ireland . It was...
), AP Cronyn (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), R Galbraith (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), J Myles (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), EN McIlwaine (NIFC
North of Ireland FC
North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were formed earlier anywhere else in all Ireland . It was...
), WS Allen (Wanderers), G Andrews (NIFC
North of Ireland FC
North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were formed earlier anywhere else in all Ireland . It was...
), WH Ash (NIFC
North of Ireland FC
North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were formed earlier anywhere else in all Ireland . It was...
), M Barlow (Wanderers), BN Casement (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), A Combe (NIFC
North of Ireland FC
North of Ireland Football Club is a former Irish rugby union club that was based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first rugby club formed in what is now Northern Ireland and only two other clubs - Dublin University and Wanderers - were formed earlier anywhere else in all Ireland . It was...
), W Gaffikin (Windsor), E Galbraith (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), FT Hewson (Wanderers), JA McDonald (Methodist College), RM Maginess (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
), G Stack (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
) capt., HD Walsh (Dublin University
Dublin University Football Club
Dublin University Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.-History:...
)
----
Scotland vs. England
Scotland: WD Brown (Glasgow AcademicalsGlasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
) capt., T Chalmers (Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
), Malcolm Cross
Malcolm Cross
Malcolm Cross was a Scottish rugby union player.He was capped nine times for between 1875-80. He also played for Merchistonians.He was the brother of William Cross who was also capped for Scotland, and who scored the first ever conversion in international rugby.-References:* Bath, Richard The...
(Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
), Ninian Finlay
Ninian Finlay
Ninian Jamieson Finlay was a Scottish international rugby players. He was capped nine times for between 1875-81, and is generally considered to be the youngest player ever to be capped for - he was seventeen years and thirty six days old when he was capped against on 8th March, 1875...
(Edinburgh Academicals), HM Hamilton (West of Scotland), JK Todd (Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
), JR Hay-Gordon (Edinburgh Academicals), Allen Arthur
Allen Arthur
Allen Arthur was a Scottish rugby football player.He was capped twice for between 1875-76. He also played for Glasgow Academicals.He was the brother of John Arthur who was also capped for Scotland during the first ever rugby international.-References:...
(Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
), JW Dunlop (West of Scotland), AP Finlay
Arthur Finlay
Arthur Finlay was a Scottish rugby union player.He was capped once for in 1875. He also played for Edinburgh Academicals.He was the brother of James Finlay and Ninian Finlay who were also capped for Scotland, James in the first ever international...
(Edinburgh Academicals), GR Fleming (Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
), G Heron (Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Academicals RFC
The Glasgow Academical Football Club is one of the oldest rugby football clubs in Scotland. This history is notable for a number of reasons, including the clubs longevity, its early foundation in the timeline of rugby, and the fact that the club produced many internationals...
), RW Irvine
Bulldog Irvine
Doctor Robert W. Irvine, nicknamed "Bulldog", was a Scottish rugby football player.-Rugby career:He was capped 13 times for between 1871–80, including the first ever rugby international...
(Edinburgh Academicals), A Marshall (Edinburgh Academicals), JAW Mein (Edinburgh Academicals), AG Petrie (Royal HSFP), J Reid
James Reid (rugby)
James Reid was a Scottish rugby football player.He was capped five times for between 1874-77. He also played for Edinburgh Wanderers.He was the brother of Charles Reid who was also capped for Scotland.-References:...
(Edinburgh Wanderers), D Robertson (Edinburgh Academicals), A Wood (Royal HSFP)
England: AW Pearson
Alexander William Pearson
Alexander "Alec" William Pearson was a rugby union international who represented England from 1875 to 1878. He was described as late as 1925 as "about as fíne a full back as ever played", and was the first Australian born rugby union international.-Early life and family:Alexander William Pearson...
(Blackheath), Reg Birkett
Reg Birkett
Reginald Halsey Birkett was an English football player who played for Clapham Rovers, as well as the English national side. He also played international rugby union for England in 1871, in the first ever international rugby match. In this match he scored England's first ever try.-Early...
(Clapham Rovers
Clapham Rovers F.C.
Clapham Rovers was from its foundation in 1869 a leading English sports organisation in the two dominant codes of football, association football and rugby union. It was a prominent club in the late 19th century but is now defunct...
), S Morse
Sydney Morse
Sydney Morse was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875. -Early life:Sydney Morse was born on June 1, 1854 in Birmingham. He was the son of Rev Francis Morse, MA, and his wife Clarissa Catharine Morse. Francis, at the time of Sydney's birth, was the incumbent of the...
(Marlborough Nomads
Marlborough Nomads
The Marlborough Nomads was a 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures....
), AT Michell (Oxford University
Oxford University RFC
The Oxford University Rugby Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Oxford. The club contests The Varsity Match every year against Cambridge University at Twickenham.-History:...
), WAD Evanson (Civil Service
Civil Service F.C.
Civil Service F.C. is an English football club based in the city of London. The club originally played both association football and rugby football and the Civil Service, along with Blackheath F.C., is one of the two clubs that can claim to be a founder member of both the Football Association and...
), WE Collins
William Collins (sportsman, born 1853)
William Edward Collins MB MRCS CMG was a sportsman and politician...
(St George's Hospital
St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC
St. George’s Hospital Medical School RFC is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world having been founded in 1863. The side is notable for its long history, its participation in the oldest competition in rugby, the United Hospitals Cup, as well as having produced a large number of international...
), FR Adams
Frank Reginald Adams
Frank Adams was a rugby union international who represented England from 1875 to 1879. He also captained his country.-Early life:Frank Adams was born in 1852, the second son of Frank Adams and Ellen Straith...
(Richmond
Richmond F.C.
Richmond Football Club is a rugby union club from Richmond, London. It is a founding member of the Rugby Football Union, and is one of the oldest football clubs...
), James Bush (Clifton
Clifton Rugby Football Club
Clifton Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club founded in Clifton, Bristol, England. Over the years the club's home games have been played in a variety of locations in northern Bristol, though never in Clifton itself; since 1976 they have been based at the southern end of Cribbs Causeway.Clifton...
), EC Cheston
Ernest Cheston
Ernest Cheston was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1876.-Early life:Ernest Cheston was born on 24 October 1848 in Hackney the sixth son of Chester Cheston of Clapton. He attended Haileybury and Imperial Service College where he was the captain of the school rugby XX...
(Richmond
Richmond F.C.
Richmond Football Club is a rugby union club from Richmond, London. It is a founding member of the Rugby Football Union, and is one of the oldest football clubs...
), WRB Fletcher
William Fletcher (rugby union)
William Fletcher was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875. -Early life:William Fletcher was born on December 10, 1851 in Kensington...
(Marlborough Nomads
Marlborough Nomads
The Marlborough Nomads was a 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures....
), JSM Genth (Manchester
Manchester Rugby Club
Manchester Rugby Club, formerly known as Manchester Football Club, are one of the oldest rugby union clubs in existence, having been founded in 1860, 11 years before the RFU....
), HJ Graham (Wimbeldon Hornets
Wimbledon RFC
Wimbledon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from Wimbledon, London. The club was a founding member of the Rugby Football Union and were at that time known as the Wimbledon Hornets.-History:Wimbledon’s first recorded match was against Richmond F.C...
), Edward Kewley
Edward Kewley
Edward Kewley was an English sportsman who played rugby union for England and also played first class cricket for Lancashire...
(Liverpool
Liverpool St Helens F.C.
Liverpool St Helens Football Club are a rugby union team formed from the merger of Liverpool Football Club and St. Helens RUFC. The club currently plays in North 1 West....
), Henry Arnold Lawrence
Henry Arnold Lawrence
Henry Arnold Lawrence was a rugby union forward who played club rugby for Richmond F.C. and international rugby for England. He was the third captain of the England rugby team.-Personal life:...
(Richmond
Richmond F.C.
Richmond Football Club is a rugby union club from Richmond, London. It is a founding member of the Rugby Football Union, and is one of the oldest football clubs...
) capt., Francis Luscombe
Francis Luscombe
Francis Luscombe was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1876. He also captained his country.-Early life:Francis Luscombe was born on 1849 in Norwood, then in Surrey...
(Gipsies
Gipsies Football Club
The Gipsies Football Club was a short lived 19th century rugby football club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union, as well as producing a number of international players in the sport's early international fixtures.-History:The Gipsies...
), Murray Marshall
Murray Marshall
Murray Marshall was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1878. He also captained his country.-Early life:Murray Marshall was born 7 October 1852 in Guildford and baptised on 3 November 1852 in the parish of St Peter and St Paul, Godalming. His parents were Murray and...
(Blackheath), S Parker (Liverpool
Liverpool St Helens F.C.
Liverpool St Helens Football Club are a rugby union team formed from the merger of Liverpool Football Club and St. Helens RUFC. The club currently plays in North 1 West....
), JE Paul
Josiah Edward Paul
Josiah Edward Paul was a rugby union international who represented England in 1875.-Early life:Josiah Edward Paul was born in around June 1853, registered in Tetbury His father was Josiah T Paul, a solicitor, and his mother was Mary, who was twentyone years his father's junior. Josiah had at least...
(RIE College
Royal Indian Engineering College
The Royal Indian Engineering College was a British college of Civil Engineering founded by Sir George Tomkyns Chesney in 1870. It was intended to train engineers for the Indian Public Works department. The work of the college was transferred to India in 1906....
), Dawson Turner
Dawson Turner (rugby union)
For the English banker and botanist see Dawson Turner.Dawson Turner was a rugby union international who represented England from 1871 to 1875.-Early life:...
(Richmond
Richmond F.C.
Richmond Football Club is a rugby union club from Richmond, London. It is a founding member of the Rugby Football Union, and is one of the oldest football clubs...
)