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Pirates Playing For Cornwall  |
Cornwall Rugby Football
Union Current
Fixtures |
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legendary Cornwall V Durham 1908 County Championship Final at Redruth |  | Cornwall
won 17-3 with wing Barrie Bennetts (who also played for Devon Albion)
crossing
for one of Cornwall's five tries |
The
Cornwall team (plus officials) that played Devon at Camborne 13th. November, 1954
Standing L-R:
W. H. Gilmore (Cheshire) Referee, G. N. Pearce, G. Thomas,
A. Bone, C. Williams,
C.R. 'Bonzo' Johns, T. Bidgood, G. Harris, R. Hosen,
P. Cleaver (Pirates),
R.F.P. Carne, H. Stevens, L Clymo, W. H. Jose, B.G.
Batten (Pirates)
Selector, H. Curnow. Seated L-R:
J.F.
Richards (Hon. Team and match Secretary), V.G. Roberts, R. Alan C. Barbary (Hon.
Secretary),
J. Kendall-Carpenter
(Pirates) Captain, W.F.J. Baker (President), J. M. Williams (Pirates), S.A. Hooper
(Hon. Treasurer), L. Semmens, R. Carr (Pirates) Representative on the RFU. Front:
J.T. Thomas (Pirates), D. Rogers.
J. T. Thomas mentioned is Johnny Thomas
who was capped 22 times for Cornwall (1953-62), his first games played whilst
still with the St. Ives club.
1969
County Championship Final played at Redruth in 1969.
One of the most memorable
county matches that 'Stack' played in was
the 1969 County Championship Final played at Redruth in 1969. It was 1908
all over again - the same interest, the same enthusiasm, with 23,000 packed into
the Recreation ground. However, the opponents this time were the strong
Lancashire side captained by Jim Greenwood, England's leader of the period who
is also the father of Will Greenwood. Cornwall were 9-0 up at the break,
but the Lancastrians came back strongly in the second period to sneak it 11-9.
There were no Cornish excuses - the better side won. Cornish
players pictured above L-R: Gerry McKeown, Roger Hosken, 'Stack',
Colin 'Knocker' Kneebone (then of Penryn, but who did good deeds in later years
when coaching our Colts), 'Bonzo' Johns and Roger Harris.
Can
you recognise the two 'Pirates' in this Cornwall Schools U15s
team of 45 years ago? They
are:
Richard Evans President kneeling
third from the right, with
Paul Greaves - a Vice President
-back-row fourth from the left!
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