Tyldesley FC explained

Clubname:Tyldesley FC
Fullname:Tyldesley FC
Nickname:the Bongers[1]
Exited:
Re-joined the RFU

Tyldesley was a rugby league club in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.

The club took part in the meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield in 1895 and, after the schism, became founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League), playing for five seasons from 1895–96 to 1899–1900

History

Early Days

The first rugby club in Tyldesley was formed in 1881 when, after a meeting of local businessmen and rugby players from other clubs, they decided to move from Garrett Hall to Tyldesley and become Tyldesley Football Club.[2]

In 1891, Tyldesley signed future England International Half-back John "Buff" Berry from Kendal Hornets. He went on to win caps for England (RU) while at Tyldesley in 1891 against Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.[3]

He continued playing for Tyldesley under the Northern Union rules as a stand-off half. Tyldesley beat Widnes to win the 1895 Lancashire (Rugby Union) Cup at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, in front of around 15,000 spectators.

Northern Union

Prior to the Schism, Tyldesley, like many other clubs from Lancashire (and Yorkshire), had suffered punishment by the RFU for "broken time" payments. And so Tyldesley, represented by a Mr. G Taylor, attended a meeting at The George Hotel, Huddersfield, together with representatives of 21 other clubs, and agreed to form the Northern Rugby Football Union.

After the Great Schism[4] in 1895, Tyldesley were one of the founder members of the new league. In the first season 1895-96 the league consisted of 22 clubs and Tyldesley finished in a very creditable 6th position.

In season 1896-97 the league was divided into Yorkshire and Lancashire, Tyldesley playing in the latter section, where they would stay for the remainder of their (semi) professional existence. They again had a quite successful season finishing in 3rd position out of 14 teams

In the two following seasons, still in the Lancashire section, season 1897-98 & 1898-99 they could only manage a lowly 12th position (out of 14 teams).

In the final season, 1899–1900 they won the wooden spoon, finishing 14th out of 14 teams, with only five points thanks to two wins and one draw.

Revert to Rugby Union

At the end of the 1901–02 season the club, which had played in the Lancashire second competition, disbanded as the club had amassed substantial liabilities.[5] A reformed Tyldesley club was admitted to the Rugby Football Union in 1911.[6]

In 1926, landowning Club President (Mr. William Hesketh Ramsden[7]) gave the Well Street ground in trust to the Club.

Club League Record

The League positions for Tyldesley for the 5 years in which they played (semi) professional Rugby League are given in the following table :-[8]

width=90 abbr="season" Seasonwidth=100 abbr="Competition"Competitionwidth=75 abbr="Position" Poswidth=200 abbr="Club" Team Name width 50 abbr="Pl" Plwidth 50 abbr="W" Wwidth 50 abbr="D" Dwidth 50 abbr="L" Lwidth 60 abbr="PF" PWwidth 60 abbr="PA" PAwidth 100 abbr="Diff" Diffwidth 60 abbr="Pts" Ptswidth 100 abbr="%" % Ptswidth 100 abbr="No of Teams" No of teams in leaguewidth=40 abbr="Notes" Noteswidth=50 abbr="Ref" Ref
1895–96RL6 Tyldesley 42 21 8 13260 164 96 50 22
Only limited County League information is available for this season.
1896–97Lancs Sen Comp3 Tyldesley 2615 2 9 15980 79 32 14
1897–98Lancs Sen Comp 12 Tyldesley 26 8 1 17 111 281 -170 17 14
1898–99Lancs Sen Comp 12 Tyldesley 26 3 5 18 82 240 -158 11 14
1899–1900Lancs Sen Comp 14 Tyldesley 26 2 1 23 66 336 -270 5 20.83 14
Heading Abbreviations
RL = Single Division; Pl = Games played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose; PF = Points for; PA = Points against; Diff = Points difference (+ or -); Pts = League points
% Pts = A percentage system was used to determine league positions due to clubs playing varying number of fixtures and against different opponents
League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.

Several fixtures & results

The following are just a few of Tyldesley's fixtures during the five seasons (and other times) in which they played (semi) professional Rugby League :-[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

width=90 abbr="season" Seasonwidth=120 abbr="Date" Datewidth=150 abbr="Competition"Competitionwidth=150 abbr="Opp" Opponent width 150 abbr="Venue" Venuewidth 50 abbr="H/A" H/Awidth=75 abbr="Result" Result width 100 abbr="Score" Scorewidth 150 abbr=" Att " Attwidth=40 abbr="Notes" Noteswidth=50 abbr="Ref" Ref
1895–96Sat 28 September 1895RlWiganFolly FieldADraw0-0" "1
1895–96Sat 26 October 1895RLSt. HelensKnowsley RoadADraw3-3
1895–962 November 1895RlWidnesHomeHWon9-0
1895–9630 November 1895RLWarringtonHomeHLost3-10-1895–96Sat 28 December 1895RlHullBoulevardHWon3-0
1895–968 February 1896RLWidnesLowerhouse LaneALost0-112
1895–967 March 1896RlWarringtonWilderspoolHDraw3-3
1895–96Sat 21 March 1896RLHullHomeHWon18-0
1895–96Sat 28 March 1896RlSt HelensHomeHWon11-10
1895–96Tue 21 April 1896RLWiganHomeHWon5-0
1896–97-1 -1 1896Lanc Sen CompWidnesLowerhouse LaneAWon8-42
1896–97Sat 26 September 1896Lanc Sen CompSt HelensKnowsley RoadALost0-3
1896–97Sat 31 October 1896Lanc Sen CompWiganFolly FieldAWon3-01
1896–977 November 1896Lanc Sen CompWidnesHomeHWon19-3
1896–97Sat 5 December 1896Lanc Sen CompWiganHomeHWon8-0
1896–9719 December 1896Lanc Sen CompWarringtonHomeHWon3-0
1896–97Sat 20 February 1897Lanc Sen CompSt HelensHomeHWon12-9
1896–9727 February 1897Lanc Sen CompWarringtonWilderspoolHWon6-0
1896–9727 March 1897CC R2LeedsHomeHWon9-3
1896–97Sat 10 April 1897CC R4St HelensKnowsley RoadALost0-12
1897–98Sat 25 December 1897Lanc Sen CompWiganFolly FieldALost2-31
1897–984 September 1897Lanc Sen CompWarringtonHomeHWon19-0
1897–98Sat 25 September 1897Lanc Sen CompSt HelensKnowsley RoadALost0-11
1897–98Sat 9 October 1897Lanc Sen CompWiganHomeHWon3-0
1897–9813 November 1897Lanc Sen CompWidnesHomeHLost2-27
1897–984 December 1897Lanc Sen CompWarringtonWilderspoolHLost0-9
18 97-9818 December 1897Lanc Sen CompWidnesLowerhouse LaneALost0-32
1897–98Sat 15 January 1898Lanc Sen CompSt HelensHomeHWon8-3
1897–98Fri 8 April 1898FriendlyHullBoulevardHLost2-9
1898–991 October 1898Lanc Sen CompWidnesHomeHLost4-8
1898–9929 October 1898Lanc Sen CompWarringtonWilderspoolHLost4-21
1898–99Sat 24 December 1898Lanc Sen CompWiganHomeHDraw0-0
1898–99Mon 26 December 1898Lanc Sen CompSt HelensKnowsley RoadALost5-9
1898–9921 January 1899Lanc Sen CompWarringtonHomeHLost0-6
1898–99Sat 11 February 1899Lanc Sen CompSt HelensHomeHLost3-6
1898–99Sat 4 March 1899Lanc Sen CompWiganFolly FieldADraw0-01
1898–9915 April 1899Lanc Sen CompWidnesLowerhouse LaneALost2-142
1899–190026 October 1899Lanc Sen CompWarringtonWilderspoolHLost0-22
1899–190011 November 1899Lanc Sen CompWidnesHomeHLost3-10
1899–190025 November 1899Lanc Sen CompWidnesLowerhouse LaneALost0-112
1899–1900Sat 2 December 1899Lanc Sen CompSt HelensKnowsley RoadALost3-26
1899–1900Sat 23 December 1899Lanc Sen CompWiganFolly FieldALost6-151
1899–1900Sat 30 December 1899Lanc Sen CompSt HelensHomeHLost3-14
1899–19007 January 1900Lanc Sen CompWarringtonHomeHLost0-11
1899–1900Sat 13 January 1900Lanc Sen CompWiganHomeHLost5-7
1899–190017 April 1900SWL R1WidnesLowerhouse LaneALost6-232

Notes and Comments

  1. Folly Field is the stadium used by Wigan at the time until 1901. They then became sub-tenants of Springfield Park See below - Note 3.
  2. Lowerhouse Lane is the original site of the current ground used by Widnes. It was renamed Naughton Park in 1932 in honour of club secretary, Tom Naughton - and later renamed Halton Stadium after being completely rebuilt in 1997.
  3. Wigan became sub-tenants of Springfield Park, which they shared with Wigan United AFC, playing their first game there on 14 September 1901 at which a crowd of 4,000 saw them beat Morecambe 12–0, and the last game on 28 April 1902 when Wigan beat the Rest of Lancashire Senior Competition. A temporary ground was necessary to span the period between moving from Folly Field and the new ground at Central Park being constructed.

See also

References

  1. Hard lines for Tyldesley . Athletic News . 7 September 1891 . 2.
  2. Web site: Tyldesley RUFC - Club History . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090820064331/http://www.tyldesleyrufc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=86 . 20 August 2009 .
  3. Web site: International Statistics at scrum.com. scrum.com. 31 December 2008. 1 January 2009.
  4. Book: J C Lindley with personal recollections by D W Armitage. 100 Years of Rugby - The History of Wakefield Trinity Football Club. 1973. The Wakefield Trinity Centenary Committee. 34 and 35.
  5. News: Sport and Play . Lancashire Evening Post . 5 . 13 April 1901 . 4512 . subscription . British Newspaper Archive.
  6. News: Historic sports club pleads for fundraiser support . 26 November 2021 . Leigh Journal . 20 March 2017 . en.
  7. News: Archived . London Gazette . 21 December 1900 . 2023-06-01 . en . March 8, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308212259/http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27258/pages/8649/page.pdf.
  8. Book: Jack Winstanley & Malcolm Ryding. John Player Rugby League Yearbook 1975–76. 1975. Queen Anne Press.
  9. Web site: Cherry and White.
  10. Web site: Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120302024838/http://www.hullfc.com/FixturesAndResults.aspx?sg=12&gi=3. 2 March 2012.
  11. Web site: Warrington Wolves results and archives. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111221223749/http://www.warringtonwolves.org/results-archive. 21 December 2011.
  12. Web site: Saints Heritage Society.
  13. Web site: Widnes Seasons in Review.

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