• Runcorn FC was a rugby league club. Having formed in 1876 and played rugby union as members of the RFU, they joined the Northern Union in 1895, just several...
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    Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. Runcorn is on the south bank of the River Mersey, where the...
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  • Canal Street was a sports stadium used by Runcorn RFC and later Runcorn FC, in Canal Street, Runcorn, a town now within the borough of Halton in the ceremonial...
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  • in the North West Men's League. The first rugby league club in Runcorn was Runcorn RFC which joined the Northern Union in 1895, just several days after...
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  • Lancashire competitions. They had a rivalry with fellow Cheshire side Runcorn RFC. Stockport RFC was founded 1884 by men associated with Stockport Sunday School...
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  • Joe Richardson (rugby league) (category Runcorn RFC players)
    He played at representative level for Cheshire, and at club level for Runcorn RFC, as a stand-off or scrum-half. He was taken ill while travelling by train...
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  • Samuel Houghton (category Runcorn RFC players)
    for Runcorn RFC, and Birkenhead Wanderers, as a fullback. and representative level rugby league (RL) for Cheshire, and at club level for Runcorn RFC, who...
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  • Jim Jolley (category Runcorn RFC players)
    level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Warrington, Runcorn RFC and Leigh, as a stand-off, and coached at club level for Leigh, where...
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    Harry Speakman (category Runcorn RFC players)
    1915) was an English rugby union utility back who played club rugby for Runcorn. Although never capped at international level in his own country, in 1888...
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  • Dick Padbury (category Runcorn RFC players)
    level for Runcorn RFC, as a forward. Dick Padbury's birth was registered in Runcorn district, Cheshire, England. Padbury made his debut for Runcorn in October...
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  • Alf Peacock (category Runcorn RFC players)
    representative level for England and Lancashire, and at club level for Runcorn RFC and Warrington, initially as a forward, and then as a specialist hooker...
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    Wednesday's game New Zealand were again defeated in the rain, dominated by the Runcorn RFC forwards they lost 9–0. After a string of defeats and poor weather the...
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  • they were defeated by Keighley and in 1909 when they were defeated by Runcorn RFC. This was a sound foundation for the club to build on to become a major...
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  • Edgar Wrigley (category Runcorn RFC players)
    Wrigley returned to Britain for a full-time professional career, signed with Runcorn for £400 and a guarantee of employment as a plumber. He later moved to...
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  • relocated numerous times, and were known as London Highfield, Huyton, Runcorn Highfield, Highfield, and eventually Prescot Panthers throughout their...
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  • for Wigan in the 13-2 victory over Runcorn RFC in the 1914 Challenge Cup second-round match at Canal Street, Runcorn on Saturday 14 March 1914, he was...
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  • Danny Wilson (rugby) (category Cardiff RFC players)
    international stand-off, he played his club rugby for Widnes, Barrow, Swinton, Runcorn Highfield and Springfield Borough. Born in Wales to a Sierra Leone Creole...
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  • Paul Woods (rugby) (category Pontypool RFC players)
    Dragons and Runcorn Highfield, as a fullback, stand-off or scrum-half, and coached club level rugby union (RU) for Tredegar RFC and Margam RFC. Paul Woods...
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    Bert Jenkins (category Mountain Ash RFC players)
    December 1904, he made his début for Wigan in the 10–7 victory over Runcorn RFC at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 10 December 1904, he scored his first...
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  • 1899–1900 St Helens RLFC season (category St Helens R.F.C. seasons)
    The 1899–1900 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's fifth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 26th in their history. In their highest ever finish...
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  • Chris Arkwright (category St Helens R.F.C. captains)
    team. Arkwright was signed by Runcorn Highfield in October 1990. The transfer fee was set by a tribunal, with Runcorn paying Saints an initial £4,000...
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    voice of comedian John Bishop, an example of a working-class male from Runcorn, a town near Liverpool, had a greater percentage of people with the Liverpool...
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    Jack Owens (rugby league) (category St Helens R.F.C. players)
    Rugby League Project "Widnes Vikings: début joy for sweet sixteen Owens". Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News. 26 May 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2013. "Jack Owens:...
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    Jon Bennison (category Rugby league players from Runcorn)
    Warrington. Rugby League Project Cultivate. "Jonathan Bennison". St.Helens R.F.C. Retrieved 2021-09-18. "Salford Red Devils v Saints". saintsrlfc.com. 18...
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  • Alec Fildes (category Rugby league players from Runcorn)
    Helens as a prop, second-row or loose forward. Albert Fildes was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, and he died aged 75 in St Helens, Merseyside. Albert...
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    George Hayward (rugby) (category Glamorgan County RFC players)
    professional league team Wigan, making his début on Saturday 27 December against Runcorn. George Hayward played in Wigan's victories in the Lancashire County League...
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  • Eric Prescott (category St Helens R.F.C. players)
    Lancashire, and at club level for St Helens, Salford (two spells), Widnes and Runcorn Highfield, as a wing, centre, second-row or loose forward. He was the father...
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  • moved to Runcorn F.C.'s Canal Street Ground, Runcorn after Alt Park's main stand was declared unsafe. The club then became known as Runcorn Highfield...
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  • Wolves Widnes Vikings Cheshire had its own rugby league tradition with Runcorn being one of the founder members of the Northern Union in 1895 but this...
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    Graham Walters (category Swansea RFC players)
    Llanelli, Carmarthen Quins and Athletic, Kidwelly RFC, Hendy RFC, Carmarthen County Rugby, and Swansea RFC, as a Centre, and representative level rugby league...
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