Liverpool St Helens F.C.

Liverpool St Helens F.C.

Rugby team
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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 2 West.

They are often confused with either Liverpool Football Club (playing association football or soccer) or St Helens Rugby League Football Club (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 ever rugby international. In 1914 the club had three international captains in the first fifteen, 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 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.

External links

* [http://www.liverpoolsthelensrugby.co.uk/ Official site]


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