1885 Home Nations Championship

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1885 Home Nations Championship
Date3 January - 21 February 1885
CountriesFlag of England.svg  England
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg  Ireland
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Flag of Wales (1807-1953).svg  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions Not completed [1]
Matches played4
Top point scorer(s) Flag of Scotland.svg Veitch (1)
Flag of Wales (1807-1953).svg Taylor (1)
Flag of England.svg Payne (1)
Top try scorer(s) Flag of Wales (1807-1953).svg Jordan (2)
Flag of England.svg Hawkridge (2)
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The 1885 Home Nations Championship was the third series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, but the tournament was not completed.

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The 1885 Championship was notable for the disputes occurring between the Home Nation Unions which prevented a full tournament to be completed. England and Scotland refused to face each other due to the refereeing disagreement from their 1884 encounter, and Wales and Ireland also failed to meet due to union disputes. [2] The 1885 Championship also experienced a rare replay, when the Ireland versus Scotland game at Ormeau was abandoned after bad weather stopped play. The replay was played in Scotland. [2]

Table

PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1Flag of England.svg  England 22001104
2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 211010+13
3Flag of Wales (1807-1953).svg  Wales 20111101
4Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg  Ireland 20020110
Source: [3]

The matches

[ citation needed ]

Wales vs. England

Scotland vs. Wales

Source: [5]

England vs. Ireland

[ citation needed ]

7 February 1885
England  Flag of England.svg2T 1TSaint Patrick's Saltire.svg  Ireland
Try: Bolton
Hawcridge
Try: Greene
Whalley Range, Manchester
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: HS Lyne (Wales)

England: CH Sample (Cambridge University), WN Bolton (Blackheath), Andrew Stoddart (Blackheath), JJ Hawcridge (Bradford), A Rotherham (Oxford University), JH Payne (Broughton), Frank Moss (Broughton), G Harrison (Hull), AT Kemble (Liverpool), Charles Gurdon (Richmond), HJ Ryalls (New Brighton), CH Horley (Swinton), CS Wooldridge (Blackheath), GT Thomson (Halifax), ET Gurdon (Richmond) capt.

Ireland: GH Wheeler (Queen's College, Belfast), EH Greene (Dublin Uni.), JP Ross (Lansdowne), RG Warren (Lansdowne), RE McLean (NIFC), EC Crawford (Dublin Uni.), THM Hobbs (Dublin Uni.), Thomas Lyle (Dublin Uni.), FW Moore (Wanderers), T Shanahan (Lansdowne), RM Bradshaw (Wanderers), TC Allen (NIFC), HJ Neill (NIFC), RW Hughes (NIFC), WG Rutherford (Lansdowne) capt.


Scotland vs. Ireland

Source: [6]

7 March 1885
Scotland  Flag of Scotland.svg1G - 0GSaint Patrick's Saltire.svg  Ireland
Try: Reid
Peterkin
ARD Wauchope
Con: Veitch
Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
Referee: HC Kelly (Ireland)

Scotland James Veitch, Bill Maclagan (capt), Henry Evans, Gardyne Maitland, ARD (Bunny) Wauchope, Patrick Wauchope, Tom Ainslie, John Brown, John Jamieson, Walter Irvine, William Peterkin, Charlie Reid, Jack Tait, John Tod, Gordon Mitchell

Ireland: Robert Morrow, Ernest Greene, John Ross, Robert Warren, Daniel Ross, D.V. Hunter, J.A. Thompson, Thomas Lyle, Frederick Moore, Thomas Shanahan, Robert Bradshaw, Arthur Forrest (capt), Harry Neill, Jack Johnston, William Hogg

References

  1. Six Nations roll of honour
  2. 1 2 Godwin (1984), pg 9.
  3. "Home Nations 1885: Points table". espnScrum. ESPN Sports Media. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  4. "Historical Rugby Milestones 1880s". RugbyFootballHistory.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  5. "Scotland 0G - 0G Wales (FT): Home Nations - Glasgow, 10 January 1885". ESPN . Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. "Scotland 1G - 0G Ireland (FT): Home Nations - Edinburgh, 7 March 1885". ESPN . Retrieved 11 June 2016.

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