Liverpool St Helens F.C.

Liverpool St Helens

Full name	Liverpool St Helens Football Club
Union	RFU
Founded	1857; 167 years ago (1857)
Location	St. Helens, Merseyside
Ground(s)	Moss Lane
President	Stan Bagshaw
Coach(es)	Andy Northey
Captain(s)	Paddy Royle
League(s)	Lancashire Premier
2017-18	2nd
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 institution is not to be confused with either Liverpool F.C. (playing association football) or St. Helens (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,

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

• Lancashire Cup
  winners (5): 1977, 1979, 1984, 1990, 1996
• North Division 2 West champions: 2006-07

Former Internationals from Liverpool St Helens F.C.

Source for below:^[1]

• John Clayton 1871
• Arthur Lyon 1871
• Frank Tobin 1871
• Edward Kewley 1874
• Sidney Parker
  1874
• J. R. Hay Gordon 1875
• C. W. H. Clark 1875
• C. L. Verelst 1876
• Charles Touzel 1877
• Henry Springmann 1879
• Harold Dingwall Bateson 1879
• Arthur Kemble 1885
• G. G. Allen 1897
• W. B. Stoddart 1897
• R. Pierce 1898
• W. Mortimer 1899
• C. E. Allen 1900
• John Strand-Jones 1902
• Reginald Spooner
  1903
• H. J. Knox 1904
• L. A. N. Slocock 1907
• G. Leather 1907
• G. Pinion 1909
• M. G. Garry 1909
• Ronald Poulton-Palmer
  1909
• A. W. Angus 1910
• R. A. Lloyd 1910
• Edward O'Donovan Crean, 1910 ^[2]
• F. H. Turner 1911
• Arthur Blakiston 1920
• E. J. Massey 1925
• Watcyn Thomas 1927
• H. A. Fry 1933
• A. A. Brown 1938
• M. Regan 1953
• R. Higgins 1954
• A. Ashcroft 1956
• K. R. F. Bearne 1960
• R. J. French 1961
• T. J. Brophy 1964
• E. L. Rudd 1965
• F. E. Cotton 1971
• M. C. Beese 1972
• D. Roughley 1973
• M. A. C. Slemen 1976
• J. P. Horton 1978
• M. J. Colclough 1982
• C. Jones 1983
• K. G. Simms 1985
• C. D. Morris 1988
• N. J. Heslop 1990
• S. G. Mason 1996
• N. Tchakoute 2001
• J. Keulemans 2001
• BJ Botha 2006

References