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Aspatria RFC
Aspatria Rugby Union Football Club is based in Aspatria, Cumbria (formerly Cumberland) in north west England, not far from the Scottish Border. They are nicknamed the "Black Reds", and have a red cockerel as their logo. They currently play in North West 2 - a tier 6 league in the English rugby union system - division for the 2022/2023 season following the promotion in 2021/2022 from tier 7. They are not to be confused with the Aspatria Hornets, the local rugby league team. Club Honours 1st team: *Cumbria Cup winners (32): 1883, 1885, 1891, 1892, 1896, 1899, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1923, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2013 * North 2 champions: 1987-88 *North 1 champions: 1990-91 * Courage National Division 4 North champions: 1991-92 * North Lancs/Cumbria champions: 2010-11 *Cumbria League Cup winners 2018/9 2nd team: *Cumbria Shield winners (16): 1907, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1933, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumbria Rugby Union
The Cumbria Rugby Union is the sports governing body, governing body for the sport of rugby union in the county of Cumbria in England. The union is the constituent body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) for Cumbria, and administers and organises rugby union clubs and competitions in the county. It also administers the Cumbria rugby representative teams. History The county that we know of today as Cumbria was originally made up of two separate counties known as Cumberland and Westmorland as well as part of Lancashire called Furness. The game of rugby union was first recorded as being played in Carlisle, Cumberland, in 1870, while Westmorland followed a year later in 1871 with a game in Kendal, and club sides sprung up in the region from this point on. Cumberland were first of the two to form a (unofficial) county representative team and, with assistance from Lancashire County Rugby Football Union, Lancashire, they played annual matches against a combined Durham County Rugby Foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Lancashire/Cumbria
North Lancashire/Cumbria (usually referred to as North Lancs/Cumbria) was an English Rugby Union League at the seventh tier of club rugby union for teams from North Lancashire and Cumbria that ran until the end of 2017–18 season. Promotion from this division used to be into North 1 West with the champions going straight up and the league runners up facing the league runners up from South Lancs/Cheshire 1 for their place. Clubs at the bottom of the table were relegated either to North Lancashire 1, South Lancs/Cheshire 2 or the Cumbria League depending on their geographical location. The division was initially known as North-West East/North 1 when it was created in 1987, and had a number of different names since with North Lancs/Cumbria being the longest running. At the end of the 2017–18 season, the RFU had to cancel the division after 19 Lancashire clubs withdrew from RFU competitions across the leagues to form their own competitions. As a result, all Lancashire based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Miller (rugby Union)
Rob Miller (born 5 August 1989) is an English rugby union player for Wasps. He plays at Full-back. Miller was brought up in Bothel, Cumbria. Career In the 2007/8 season Miller was Tynedale's top try-scorer as they won promotion to National Division Two. Miller made his Newcastle Falcons first team début in 2008, in a man-of-the-match winning performance against Bristol. In June 2010, Miller signed a three-year deal with Sale Sharks, where he has made a number of appearances, earning man-of-the-match status in two games. Sale had to compete with Bath Rugby for Miller's signature and Falcons had been keen to hang on to him. Miller has won England Caps at Under-16s, Under 18s and Under 20 levels, helping England Under-20 to the Grand Slam in 2008, and the final of the IRB Under-20s World Cup in Wales. In 2009, Miller appeared in the Under-20s World Cup final in Japan. On 6 February 2014, Miller signed for the Wasps A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jackson Hanvey (rugby Union)
Robert Jackson Hanvey, born at Blennerhasset, Cumbria, on 16 August 1899, was an English sportsman.Goodwin, p109Player profile on scrum.com, retrieved 26 February 2010 Robert Jackson Hanvey, or Bob as he preferred, was born at Blennerhasset Cumbria on 16 August 1899. Conscripted into the in 1918, he took up and joined the newly formed Blennerhasset ‘Reds’ in the following season. Strongly built and of fine physique, his ability as a prop forward was quickly recognised. He gained the first of his forty-seven Cumberland County caps in 1919 and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England National Rugby League Team
The England national rugby league team represents England in international rugby league. The team, largely formed from the Great Britain team which also represented Wales and Scotland, is run under the auspices of the Rugby Football League. It participates in the Rugby League World Cup, Four Nations and Test matches. The team dates to 1904, when they played against a mixture of Welsh and Scottish players in Wigan. Until the 1950s, they regularly toured Australia and New Zealand and played both home and away matches against neighbours Wales and France, but when it was decided that Great Britain would tour the Southern Hemisphere instead of England, France and Wales became the only regular opponents. Their first appearance in the Rugby League World Cup was in 1975. They have been three times runners-up; in 1975, 1995 and 2017. England also competed in the European Nations Cup, and, in 2006, an England 'A' team competed for the Federation Shield. England's main rivals hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldham R
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, which had a population of 237,110 in 2019. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, and with little early history to speak of, Oldham rose to prominence in the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and among the first ever industrialised towns, rapidly becoming "one of the most important centres of cotton and textile industries in England." At its zenith, it was the most productive cotton spinning mill town in the world,. producing more cotton than France and Germany combined. Oldham's textile industry fell into decline in the mid-20th century; the town's last mill closed in 1998. The demise of textile processing in Oldham depressed and heavily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 British Lions Tour To South Africa
The 1924 British Isles tour to South Africa was the tenth tour by a British Isles team and the fifth to South Africa. The tour is retrospectively classed as one of the British Lions tours, as the Lions naming convention was not adopted until 1950. As well as South Africa, the tour included a game in Salisbury in Rhodesia, in what would become present day Harare in Zimbabwe. Tour history Led by 's Ronald Cove-Smith and managed by former international Harry Packer, the tour took in 21 matches. Of the 21 games, 17 were against club or invitational teams and four were Test matches against the South African national team. The British Isles lost three and drew one of the Test matches making it one of the least successful Lions tours to South Africa – the 1962 and 1968 tourists also lost their Test series three matches to nil with one draw. The tourist also suffered badly in the non-Test games losing six and drawing one, including a run where they failed to win over an eight-matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Holliday (rugby)
Thomas Edwin Holliday (13 July 1898 – 19 July 1969), also known as "Tom" or "Tosh", was an English rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s.Godwin, p197 He was a dual-code international, playing for the England national rugby union team, British Lions, and the England national rugby league team. Biography Thomas Edwin Holliday, born 13 July 1898 in Wigton, the youngest of four brothers, two of which died in the Great War, came from a long line of Cumberland sporting personalities. He began his education at the local school before winning a scholarship to attend The Nelson Thomlinson School, Wigton. After the armistice he began playing rugby for his home town club, Aspatria RUFC. He received the first of his 36 Cumberland county caps playing against Cheshire in 1920. In 1921, he played fullback for the North in their annual game against the South. In 1923, he received the first of his seven international caps, playing against Scotland and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Hanley (rugby Union)
Steven Melvyn Hanley (born 11 June 1979) is a former rugby union footballer who played on the wing for the Sale Sharks, signing with the club in 1998. In 1999, Hanley played his only Test for England. He was Sale's "Player of the Year" in 2004. After suffering a back injury in December 2007, Hanley retired in July 2008 after being told by doctors he would not recover well enough to play professional rugby. He scored 104 tries in 191 games, 75 of which were in the Premiership. Playing career Starting out and early international recognition born 11 June 1979 in Whitehaven, England, Hanley signed with Sale Sharks in 1998. With a Grand Slam on the cards, Hanley was one of two Sale players to make their international debut in England's final match of their 1999 Five Nations campaign along with Barrie-Jon Mather. Although Hanley scored a try, he also was handed-off by Craig Quinnell and suffered a broken arm as Wales won 32–31. It was the only match Hanley would play for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Graham (rugby Union)
David Graham (June 1875 – January 1962, in Carlisle) was an English rugby football player, from Aspatria, in Cumberland.Goodwin, p169Player profile on Scrum.com, retrieved 26 February 2010 He played once for , against in the . He played for , Keswick RFC Keswick may refer to:
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Joseph Davidson (rugby Union)
Joseph A.S. Davidson (5 October 1878 Aspatria - , Wigton) was an English sportsman.Goodwin, p109Player profile on scrum.com, retrieved 26 February 2010 Biography Originally from , in , Davidson was a stonemason and a builder by trade.
He died in an accident in a sand quarry.
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James Davidson (rugby)
James Davidson (28 December 1868 - ) was an English Rugby Union Football international who came from Aspatria, in Cumberland, Davidson was a stonemason and a builder by trade.Goodwin, p109Player profile on scrum.com, retrieved 26 February 2010 
Sports career James Davidson, more affectionately known as Jim, was born at Aspatria on 28 December 1868. He received his education at the Aspatria Agricultural College, where he excelled at sport, winning representative honours at both association football and rugby union. For over fifteen years Davidson was a prominent member of Aspatria RUFC, pl ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
