Liverpool St Helens F.C.

This article is about the English rugby union team. For the English football club, see Liverpool F.C. For the English rugby league team, see St Helens RFC.
Liverpool St Helens
Full name Liverpool St Helens Football Club
Union RFU
Founded 1857 (1857)
Ground(s) Moss Lane, St. Helens, Lancashire
President Ray French
League(s) South Lancs/Cheshire 1
Team kit
Official website
liverpoolsthelensrugby.co.uk

Liverpool St Helens Football Club is an English rugby union team formed from the merger of Liverpool Football Club and St. Helens RUFC. The club currently plays in South Lancs/Cheshire 1

The institution is often confused with either Liverpool F.C. (playing association football) or St Helens RFC (playing rugby league).

History

The club's first match took place in 1857 when old boys from Rugby school challenged local boys to a game under their school rules. Liverpool Football Club were then formed, the oldest open rugby club in the world.

In 1871, the club provided four of the England team that played Scotland in the first rugby international. On 5 February 1877 another Liverpool player, Edward Kewley, was captain of England when they played Ireland in what was the first 15-a-side international. In 1914 the club had three international captains in the first XV, Ronnie Poulton-Palmer (England), F.H. Turner (Scotland) and R.A. Lloyd (Ireland). Other internationals to play for Liverpool include Fran Cotton, Maurice Colclough, Mike Slemen and Kevin Simms.

St Helens RUFC was founded in 1919 as St Helens Old Boys, the original membership being predominantly made up of former pupils of Cowley School. Internationals who played for the club include Alan 'Ned' Ashcroft, John Horton, Nigel Heslop and the current club President Ray French.

Liverpool and St Helens merged in 1986 and played at Moss Lane which had been the St Helens club’s ground. In the early years of the merger the club had two seasons in National Division One split by one season in Division Two. During this time internationals Dewi Morris and Simon Mason played for Liverpool St Helens. But afterwards it sank to Division Four and spent virtually the whole of the 1990s coming to terms with the professional era.

Club Honours

Former Internationals from Liverpool St Helens F.C.

Source for below:[1]
  • Scotland F. H. Turner 1911
  • England A. F. Blakiston 1920
  • England E. J. Massey 1925
  • Wales W. Thomas 1927
  • England H. A. Fry 1933
  • England A. A. Brown 1938
  • England M. Regan 1953
  • England R. Higgins 1954
  • England A. Ashcroft 1956
  • Scotland K. R. F. Bearne 1960
  • England R. J. French 1961
  • England T. J. Brophy 1964
  • England E. L. Rudd 1965
  • England F. E. Cotton 1971
  • England M. C. Beese 1972
  • England D. Roughley 1973
  • England M. A. C. Slemen 1976
  • England J. P. Horton 1978
  • England M. J. Colclough 1982
  • CanadaC. Jones 1983
  • England K. G. Simms 1985
  • England C. D. Morris 1988
  • England N. J. Heslop 1990
  • S. G. Mason 1996
  • Cameroon N. Tchakoute 2001
  • Netherlands J. Keulemans 2001
  • South Africa B. Botha 2006
Club's entrance gates.

References

  1. ↑ Official Site
  2. ↑ Crean was part of the first official British and Irish Lions team that toured South Africa in 1910 although he never represented his country.

Coordinates: 53°28′15.02″N 2°46′44.23″W / 53.4708389°N 2.7789528°W / 53.4708389; -2.7789528

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