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1872–73 Home Nations Rugby Union Matches
The 1872–73 Home Nations rugby union matches was a single international friendly held between the England and Scotland national rugby union teams. With no other recognised rugby union teams in Britain or the rest of the world, the encounter between Scotland and England represented the only possible match that could be arranged, and would continue as such until 1875, when Ireland formed a national team. Results Scoring system The matches for this season were decided on goals scored. A goal was awarded for a successful conversion after a 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. The matches England vs. Scotland Scotland: WD Brown ( Glasgow Academicals), T Chalmers ( Glasgow Academicals), James Sanderson (Edinburgh Academicals), GB McClure ( West of Scotland), JLH McFarlane (Edinburgh Academicals), W St Clair Grant (Craigmoun ...
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England National Rugby Union Team
The England national rugby union team represents the Rugby Football Union (RFU) in international rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France national rugby union team, France, Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland, Italy national rugby union team, Italy, Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland and Wales national rugby union team, Wales. England have won the championship on 29 occasions (as well as sharing 10 victories), winning the Grand Slam (rugby union), Grand Slam 14 times and the Triple Crown (rugby union), Triple Crown 26 times, making them the most successful outright winners in the tournament's history. They are currently the only team from the Northern Hemisphere to win the Rugby World Cup, having won the tournament in 2003 Rugby World Cup, 2003, and have been runners-up on three further occasions. The history of the team extends back to 1871 when the English rugby team played their 1871 Scotland versus England rugby union mat ...
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Henry William Allan (rugby Union)
Henry William Allan (2 April 1850 – 12 December 1926) was a Scottish rugby union international who represented Scotland in the 1873–74 Home Nations rugby union matches The 1873–74 Home Nations rugby union matches was a single international friendly held between the England national rugby union team, England and Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland national rugby union teams. With no other recognised rugb .... He played as a forward for Glasgow Academicals. He represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the world's first provincial match, the 'inter-city', on 23 November 1872. He also represented Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in the 5 December 1874 match. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Allan, Henry William Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players Rugby union forwards Glasgow District (rugby union) players Glasgow Academicals rugby union players 1850 births 1926 deaths Rugby union players from Glasg ...
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Marlborough Nomads
The Marlborough Nomads was a 19th-century English rugby union club that was notable for being one of the twenty-one founding members of the Rugby Football Union. They also supplied a number of players for the sport's early international fixtures. History file:FI Currey.jpg, left, Frederick Currey, FI Currey, a founder of the Nomads, 120pxThe Nomads were founded in 1868 by James Bourdillon, a member of the Indian Civil Service, and F. I. Currey, who became the first secretary, and was later captain. It was founded as a club for former pupils of Marlborough College who had moved to live and work in London but still wanted to actively play football. Hence it was referred to in some quarters as Old Marlburians. The club's first match was played in 1868 against the well established Richmond FC, at Richmond's ground in the Old Deer Park and in this fixture the Nomads were beaten. The Nomads themselves originally played on Blackheath on the opposite side of the road to Blackheath F.C., ex ...
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Frederick Mills (rugby Union)
Frederick Mills was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1873. Early life Frederick Mills was born on 5 May 1849 in Chertsey. He attended Marlborough College. Rugby union career Mills made his international debut on 5 February 1872 at The Oval in the England vs Scotland match. Of the two matches he played for his national side he was on the winning side on one occasions. He played his final match for England on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow in the Scotland vs England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ... match. References 1849 births 1904 deaths English rugby union players England international rugby union players Rugby union fullbacks Rugby union players from Chertsey {{England-rugbyunion-bio-1840s-stub ...
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Richmond F
Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia * Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of Virginia, United States Richmond may also refer to: People * Richmond (surname) * Earl of Richmond * Duke of Richmond * Richmond C. Beatty (1905–1961), American academic, biographer and critic * Richmond Avenal, character in British sitcom The IT Crowd Places Australia * Richmond, New South Wales ** RAAF Base Richmond ** Richmond Woodlands Important Bird Area * Richmond River, New South Wales ** Division of Richmond (Federal Electoral district) ** Electoral district of Richmond (New South Wales) * Richmond, Queensland * Shire of Richmond, Queensland * Richmond, South Australia * Richmond, Tasmania * Richmond, Victoria ...
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Charles Vanderspar
Charles Vanderspar (1853–1877) was a rugby union international who represented England in 1873. Early life Charles Vanderspar was born on 1 July 1853 in Kandy, in Sri Lanka then known as Ceylon. He attended Wellington College in England. Rugby union career Vanderspar played for Richmond F.C. after leaving Wellington College. He was soon singled out by the England selectors and made his only international appearance, aged 19, on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow against Scotland. Later life Vanderspar returned to the land of his birth but died in Colombo on 9 April 1877. He is buried in St Mary's Church, Bogawantalawa, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ... References 1853 births 1877 deaths English rugby union players People from Briti ...
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Merchiston Castle School
Merchiston Castle School is an independent boarding school for boys in the suburb of Colinton in Edinburgh, Scotland. It has around 470 pupils and is open to boys between the ages of 7 and 18 as either boarding or day pupils; it was modelled after English public schools. It is divided into Merchiston Juniors (ages 7–13), Middle Years (ages 13–16) and a Sixth Form. History In 1828 Charles Chalmers started a small school in Park Place on a site now occupied by the McEwan Hall. In May 1833, Charles Chalmers took a lease of Merchiston Castle (the former home of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms) — which at that time stood in rural surroundings — and moved the school. It is from here that the school name is derived. Over time, the number of pupils grew and the Merchiston Castle became too small to accommodate the school. The governors decided to purchase 90 acres of ground at the Colinton House estate, four miles south-west of Edinburgh. Building began in 1928 in ...
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Francis Moncreiff
Hon. Francis Jeffrey Moncreiff (27 August 1849 – 30 May 1900) was a Scottish rugby union player,Francis Moncreiff player profile
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and 's first captain, making him one of the first two captains in international rugby. He was capped on three occasions between 1871 and 1873 for .


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Moncrieff was born in 1849, the second son of James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff of Tulliebole. He attended . On 29 October 1880, he married Mildred Fitzherbert, daughter of Lt Colon ...
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Royal HSFP
Royal High School Former Pupils is a rugby union club based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Royal HSFP was a founder member of the Scottish Rugby Union, the second oldest national governing body in the world. The original club was disbanded in 2003 when it merged with Corstorphine RFC but the merged club Royal High Corstorphine broke back into two clubs in 2017. These new clubs were known as Corstorphine Cougars and Barnton RFC. Barnton RFC was the start of an attempt to revive the old Royal HSFP side. The club is now known as "Royal High RFC". History School The Royal High School is a school in Edinburgh with origins traceable to the 12th c at the Abbey of Holyrood, subsequently run by the City of Edinburgh. The school gives its name to High School Yards off Infirmary Street, where it was located before moving to the familiar Thos. Hamilton classical Greek building on Calton Hill at Regent Road which it occupied until July 1968, when it moved to new premises at East Barnton Avenue ...
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Bulldog Irvine
Doctor Robert William Irvine, (1853–1897) nicknamed "Bulldog", was a Scotland international rugby football player.Bath, p137 Rugby Union career Amateur career He played for Edinburgh Academicals. Provincial career He represented Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the Inter-City matches; and played in the first match in 1872. He represented East of Scotland District against West of Scotland District in 1876. International career He was capped 13 times for between 1871 and 1880, including the first ever rugby international.Bath, p4 Family He was the brother of Duncan Irvine Duncan Irvine was a Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, p137 Rugby Union career Amateur career He played for Edinburgh Academicals; and Aberdeen Rangers. He was staying in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire in 1881 census. Provincial care ... who was also capped for Scotland. References ;Sources # Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publi ...
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RIE College RFC
Royal Indian Engineering College RFC was a nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Surrey-based rugby union club, who were attached to Royal Indian Engineering College from 1871 to 1903. Formation The estate of Coopers Hill in Surrey was bought by the India Office in 1870; and a college was built to train civil engineers to be sent to India. The college was officially opened in 1872. The rugby club was formed in 1871. In its day, the college's rugby union team, referred to by its opponents as "Cooper's Hill", was one of the most prominent rugby clubs in England. By the 1890s, the team was deemed of medium strength, and a long way behind the form of its heyday. This was put down to boys leaving school earlier than they had previously, thus the team became composed of men who were physically smaller in stature and physique than their predecessors.Marshall, Francis, ''Football; the Rugby union game'', (1892) (London Paris Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited) The engin ...
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John Davidson (rugby Union)
John Davidson (3 September 1851 – 19 September 1919) was a Scottish international rugby union player who played for RIE College RFC in Surrey, England. Born in Banchory in 1851, Davidson played as a Forward. Davidson played in two early rugby union international matches for Scotland against England in 1873 and 1874 Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. * January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. * January 3 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Caspe &n .... References 1851 births 1919 deaths Alumni of the Royal Indian Engineering College RIE College RFC players Rugby union forwards Rugby union players from Aberdeenshire Scotland international rugby union players Scottish rugby union players {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-1850s-stub ...
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