The 1990–91 Pilkington Cup was the 20th edition of England's, premier (at that time) rugby union club competition. Harlequins won the competition, for the second time, defeating Northampton 25 – 13 at Twickenham .[1] The event was sponsored by Pilkington .[2] [3]
First round [ edit ] Home Away Score Aspatria Vale of Lune 3-9 Chesterfield Northern 9-19 Fylde Hereford 22-3 Kettering Hartlepool Rovers 6-18 Lichfield West Park Bramhope 21-7 Morley Newark 9-3 Nuneaton Preston Grasshoppers 16-21 Sheffield Old Yardleians 22-0 Syston Roundhay 22-6 Winnington Park Broughton Park 15-19 West Hartlepool Bedworth 38-3 Wigan Harrogate 13-15 Clifton Basingstoke 31-27 Exeter Askeans 36-6 Gordon League Camborne 10-21 High Wycombe Ealing 28-13 Lewes Banbury 21-13 London Welsh Tabard 16-7 North Walsham Metropolitan Police 13-7 Parkhouse Lydney 9-10 Reading Midsomer Norton 31-4 Salisbury Brixham 26-6 Spartans Gravesend 21-6 Sudbury Sutton & Epsom 30-24 Torquay Albion Old Whitgiftians 12-15
Second round [ edit ] Home team Away team Score Broughton Park Lichfield 24-19 Harrogate Bedford 16-0 Hartlepool Rovers Northern 20-9 Morley Rugby 12-40 Gosforth Fylde 22-9 Preston Grasshoppers West Hartlepool 3-20 Sheffield Headingley 13-9 Syston Waterloo 6-12 Vale of Lune Coventry 6-22 Wakefield Sale 20-21 Blackheath Salisbury 24-3 Clifton Reading 20-15 Exeter Camborne 20-10 Lewes Spartans 6-10 London Welsh Plymouth Albion 19-12 Lydney High Wycombe 10-12 North Walsham London Irish 11-26 Richmond Sudbury 25-9
Third round [ edit ] Home team Away team Score Bath Leicester 0-12 Bristol Waterloo 18-9 Coventry Rosslyn Park 7-21 Gloucester Broughton Park 52-0 Harlequins Clifton 56-4 Harrogate Northampton 4-18 High Wycombe Moseley 10-18 London Irish Sale 20-16 Newcastle Gosforth Blackheath 19-10 Nottingham London Scottish 10-9 Orrell Spartans 69-13 Richmond Liverpool St Helens 13-12 Saracens Hartlepool Rovers 36-0 Rugby London Welsh 29-3 Sheffield Exeter 3-0 West Hartlepool Wasps 3-7
Fourth round [ edit ] Home team Away team Score Bristol Moseley 6–9 Gloucester Harlequins 13–15 Leicester Wasps 13–15 London Irish Rugby 22–11 Northampton Saracens 15–10 Nottingham Richmond 24–6 Orrell Newcastle Gosforth 26–9 Rosslyn Park Sheffield 36–0
Quarter-finals [ edit ] Home team Away team Score Harlequins Rosslyn Park 24–12 Northampton Moseley 10–6 Nottingham London Irish 48–9 Wasps Orrell 9–15
Semi-finals [ edit ] Home team Away team Score Harlequins Nottingham 22–18 (aet) Northampton Orrell 18–10
15 Ian Hunter 14 Frank Packman 13 John Thame 12 Peter Moss 11 Harvey Thorneycroft 10 John Steele 9 Richard Nancekivell 8 Tim Rodber 7 Phil Pask 6 Paul Alston 5 John Etheridge 4 Colin Hall 3 Gary Pearce (c ) 2 John Olver 1 Gavin Baldwin Replacements: 16 David Elkington for Nancekivell 17 Ben Ward for Packman 18 Matthew Ebsworth 19 Peter Roworth 20 Vasey Pocklington 21 David Newman Coach: Paul Bryant, St. Luke's College & Northampton Saints
Notes ^ The score had ended 13–13 after 80 mins. The competition was sponsored by Pilkington who had provided £700,000 over the first three seasons and agreed to a further three years worth £1,000,000.[3]
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