Sandal RUFC
* Sandal Rugby Union Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The club runs three senior sides, a veterans team, academy and colts teams and ten junior teams. The first XV plays in North Premier. History Sandal RUFC was formed in 1927 by former Wakefield RFC player Claude Beaumont. Honours * North Division 1 champions: 1994-95 * Yorkshire Cup winners (3): 1997, 2001, 2019 *Yorkshire 1 champions: 2007-08 * North 1 (east v west) promotion play-off winners: 2009–10 * National League 3 (north v midlands) promotion play-off winners: 2014–15 Notable former players * Eric Batten * Charles Chester * Jimmy Ledgard * Donald Metcalfe *Roger Pearman Roger Pearman (born ) is an English rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yorkshire Rugby Football Union
The Yorkshire Rugby Football Union is the governing body responsible for rugby union in the historic county of Yorkshire, England. It is one of the constituent bodies of the national Rugby Football Union having formed in 1869, the union was formerly called Yorkshire County Club. The county has won the county championship on 15 occasions, and finished as runners-up on a further eight occasions. The Yorkshire RFU also organises the Yorkshire Cup, which was inaugurated in 1878. History Early years of County representative team The first match arranged for the county of Yorkshire took place in 1870, at Leeds against Lancashire. This match was immediately known as the "Battle of the Roses" and was considered the "blue ribbon" of Northern rugby football. To be selected to represent the county was an honour bestowed long before the foundation of the Yorkshire RFU and it was seen as "the high road to International honours".Francis Marshall, ''Football; the Rugby union game'', page 373, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National League 3 North
North Premier was a level five league in the English rugby union system, with the fourteen teams drawn from across Northern England. The other leagues at this level were London & South East Premier, Midlands Premier and South West Premier. The RFU reorganised the level five leagues for season 2022–23, with an increase from four to six and reducing the teams in each from fourteen to twelve. The teams in this league now play in either Regional 1 North East or Regional 1 North West. Format The fourteen teams in this league were drawn from across northern England with the champions promoted to National League 2 North and the runner-up going into a play-off with the second placed team from Midlands Premier with the winner also being promoted. The league's bottom three teams are relegated to either North 1 East or North 1 West depending on their geographic location. The league was changed at the beginning of the 2009–10 season following reorganisation by the Rugby Football Union ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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English Rugby Union Teams
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Peter Read
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Neal Spencer
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Roger Pearman
Roger Pearman (born ) is an English rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Sandal RUFC , Loughborough University, and club level rugby league (RL) for ( [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Donald Metcalfe
Donald "Don" Metcalfe (15 July 1932 – 7 November 2006) was an English rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Sandal RUFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for England (Under-21s), and Yorkshire ( captain), and at club level for Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage No. 331) ( captain), and Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage No. 637), as a , or , i.e. number 1, or, 3 or 4,Bailey, Ron (1956). ''The Official History of Featherstone Rovers R.L.F.C.''. Wakefield Express. ASIN: B00O1TLDPC and coached at club level for Keighley. Background Donald Metcalfe was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, he was a mathematics lecturer at Wakefield College, and he died aged 74 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Playing career International honours Don Metcalfe won a cap(s) for England (Under-21s) during the 1951–52 season. County honours ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jimmy Ledgard
James "Jim"/"Jimmy" Ledgard (9 June 1922 – 26 January 2007) was an English rugby union and World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Sandal RUFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Dewsbury (two spells), and Leigh, as a goal-kicking , i.e. number 1, and coached at club level for Bradford Northern. He was transferred from Dewsbury to Leigh for a record fee of £2,650 during January 1948, (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £218,400 in 2013). Ledgard made 334 appearances for Leigh after joining the club from Dewsbury in 1948, scoring a record 1,043 goals for the club as well as 36 tries. He played for the club until 1958. He was part of the Great Britain side that won the 1954 World Cup, winning his 11th and last cap in the 16-12 win ov ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Chester (rugby)
Charles T. Chester (3 December 1919 – 17 December 2011) was an English rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Sandal RUFCbr>and club level rugby league (RL) for Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage № 443), as a , or , i.e. number 8 or 10, or 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.Bullough, Charlie (9 December 2011). ''Wakefield Express Page-4''. Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group. ISBN n/a Background Charlie Chester's birth was registered in Wakefield district, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and he died aged 92 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Personal life Charles Chester marriage to Mary ( née Strutt)birth registeredfirst ¼ 1923 in Wakefield district) was registered during third ¼ 1945 in Wakefield district. They had children; the future rugby union and rugby league footballer; David "Dave" C. Chesterbirth registeredthird ¼ in Wakefield district), Ana Yvonne Che ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eric Batten
Frederick "Eric" E. Batten (13 June 1914 – 3 September 1993) was an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and coached rugby league in the 1950s. He played club level rugby league (RU) for Sandal RUFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage No. 393) (two spells, including the second as a World War II guest), Hunslet, Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage No. 178) (four spells, including the first three as a World War II guest) ( captain), Leeds (two spells, including the first as a World War II guest), Castleford ( Heritage No. 221) (World War II guest) and Bradford Northern, as a , i.e. number 2 or 5, and coached at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Batley.Bailey, Ron (1956). ''The Official History Of Featherstone Rovers R.L.F.C.''. Wakefield Express. ASIN: B00O1TLDPC Eric Batten appeared in eight Challenge Cup Finals; two f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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North 1 East
North 1 East is the sixth tier of the English rugby union domestic competition, formed in 1987 using the name North Division 2, involving clubs from the north of the country. There was also division known as North East 1 that began in 1987 for clubs based in the north-east but this was a seventh (later eighth) tier league. North Division 2 would later split into two regional divisions, currently known as North 1 East and North 1 West. North 1 East is made up of teams from around the North East and Yorkshire, who play home and away matches throughout a winter season. The league champions are automatically promoted to the North Premier, whilst the second placed team enters into a play-off match with the second placed team in the equivalent Division North 1 West. The bottom three teams are relegated to either the Yorkshire Division One or the Counties 1 Durham & Northumberland leagues, the seventh tier of the English domestic rugby union competition. Following the play-off gam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sandal Magna
Sandal Magna or Sandal is a suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England with a population in 2001 of 5,432. An ancient Human settlement, settlement, it is the site of Sandal Castle and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is south from Wakefield, north of Barnsley. The Battle of Wakefield was fought here in the 15th century during the Wars of the Roses. History Toponymy The name Sandal derives from the North Germanic languages, Early Scandinavian ' meaning sand or gravel and ', a meadow. Early history In the Domesday Book of 1086 Sandal is recorded as a ' (a village where barley was grown) in Wachefeld (Wakefield) where there was a church with a priest. The church was on the site of the present church of St Helen. William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (1081–1138) was granted the Sandal estates in 1107 and began the building of Sandal Castle which became the baronial seat of the lords of the manor of Wakefield. In 1460, during the Wars of the Roses, the Richard Plantage ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |