Weekly Finds 2010

Weekly Finds 2010 "Rugby a game for Hooligans played by Gentlemen"

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Updates this year have been slow but there are lots to see in the years below:

30th December 2010 new postcard added

Collection of cards showing the 1908 Australian team, Devon, Cornwall and E. J. Jackett. I started investigating the Jackett card only to find his links to all these different teams and events. Follow links below to find more about Mr Jackett.

Lions History - http://www.lionsrugby.com/history/9235.php

Olympic Games 1908 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics


Mr E. J. Jackett in his 1908 Blazer looks like the BaBa's but could be his Olympic coat.	Jackett and his brother who played for the Cornwall side against Australia in the 1908 Olympic games	Mr Jackett with his English cap and shirt played 13 times for England including against NZ in 1905	New postcard of the 1908 Cornwall Side that went on to play in the Olympic games

Cornwall against Durham in the 1908 County Final this made them champions of England	Cornwall against Durham again selected by the RFU to represent England in the Olympic games	The Australian team "Wallabies" who took part in the 1908 Olympics as part of their UK tour	The Glamorgan side that played against Australia 7-10-08

One of Jackett's teams Devonport Albion 1903-04	Devonport Albion team of 1908 without Jackett who had moved on to play at Falmouth	The Somerset County Rugby Football Team who also played against Australia	The Cornwall team of 1907 who beat Devon in the County final 21 to 3

13th July 2010

Very little in the way of cards and paper items but have found these few bits of china in recent weeks.


The last LION in defence	from the side	An England v Argentina mug

Bristol RFC	An England World Cup Winners pill box	but no pills

Copeland Spode @1890	this one in Blue 11high	A Goss rugby boot

Copeland Spode @1890	this one in Green 9 high	Some Goss Rugby balls

5th July 2010

The 1926-27 New Zealand Maori rugby Team in Paris, not given a game against the Home Nations the French obliged in Paris. Even today they give the England side a run for their money ask Mr Johnson - full article here from the BBC


Postcard of the squad taken in the UK	Action from the game in Paris	A Maori Haka performed back in New Zealand

Sitting on the touch line	The stadium with the game in progress	The Paris version of the HAHA

Action from the game	Note how the Maori carries the ball in the outside hand ready for the hand-off	A pass out to the wing

14th Feb 2010

Selling weekly on eBay under the name OVALBALLS, medals, programmes and postcards.

Frank Boylen who played rugby union for West Hartlepool and rugby league for England in 1908 picture shows Frank with his collection of caps.

Frank Boylen was signed by Hull FC from West Hartlepool Rugby Union Club in 1908. The moved no doubt happened because West Hartlepool switched to football in 1908! He also played for Hartlepool Rovers RU.

Hartlepool was a bit of a hotbed for rugby in the late 19th / early 20th century , as players from Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wales, etc, had moved there because of the availability of work on both the digging of the docks and the building of the railways to the Durham Colliery.

He won caps for England while at Hull in 1909 against both Australia and Wales and 1910 against Wales. He won a cap for Great Britain while at Hull in 1909 against Australia. He was Hull FC’s first GB tourist in 1910 to Austalia and New Zealand. That he represented England , as well as Yorkshire, is an indication of the lax qualifying rules in those days, as he was born in Ireland, with both his mother and father being Irish.

Details and pictures supplied by Scott Quinn thanks Scott

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