Today: Previously - July 2nd

Today: Previously  -  July 2nd

Rugby League

There have been just the two previous Fev matches that took place on July 2nd

In 2000, Fev travelled to Boundary Park and Oldham beat us 32-0. Just before half-time there was a brawl that resulted in Richard Chapman being sin-binned and sanctions were also taken against Oldham’s Gibbons twins with David Gibbons sin-binned and Anthony Gibbons sent off! It was the final day of league matches that year and both sides had already booked their place in the play-offs. Perhaps the strangest thing about this match is that earlier in the season Fev had beaten Oldham 61-26 at home.

The other match was a high scoring National League Two match in 2006 when Keighley came to Post Office Road and Rovers won 50-32

The Fev team that day was:

Nathan Larvin; Gareth Davies, Wayne McHugh, Dale Cardoza, Dale Wynne; Richard Blakeway, Craig Fawcett; Ian Tonks, Paul Hughes, Stuart Dickens, Wayne Sutcliffe, Steve Dooler, Carl Hughes. 

Subs: Gavin Swinson, Gary Ellery, Greg Nicholson, James Houston

Wayne McHugh scored a hat trick. The match was virtually over after 30 minutes when Paul Hughes scored a converted try to take the score to 34-0.

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In 1997 there were quite a few occasions when Super League teams played midweek fixtures giving them 3 matches in 8 days. This was to enable the scheduling of the World Club Championship so not only were they fitting matches in with short turnarounds but they were also jetting off to the other side of the world! July 2nd that year was a Wednesday and there were four super league ties. Bradford beat Cas 34-20 at Odsal and Leeds beat Halifax 20-18 at Headingley. At the Don Valley, Sheffield beat Saints 14-12 and Salford travelled to Paris, winning 24-16.

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1910 saw the first Ashes series to take place in Australia. There were just two matches and Great Britain won both. The second match took place in Brisbane on July 2nd and the score was 22-17.

In 1952, New Zealand beat the Aussies 19-9 in Sydney and in 1955 France beat them 29-28 in Sydney. Australia gained revenge and more in 1960 beating France 56-6 in Brisbane.
In 2003 Odsal was the venue for a Yorkshire Lancashire ‘Origin’ match. Yorkshire won 56-6.
2011 brought a significant new competition in terms of the expansion of international rugby league. It was the first year of the Nordic Cup which is now an annual triangular tournament between Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The 2011 winners were Denmark and on July 2nd they beat Sweden 52-18 in Gothenburg.

World Events

In 1644, English Civil War battle at Marston Moor, North Yorkshire

In 1843, Reported that an alligator fell from the sky in South Carolina thunderstorm

In 1901, Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid rob a train of $40K in Montana

In 1937, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear in flight over the Pacific
In 1956, Elvis Presley records ‘Hound Dog’
In 1972, Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m

Birthdays

1489 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas Cranmer

1877 Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss novelist and poet

1903 Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister
1969 Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter
1980 John Duffy, Swinton Lions Head Coach
1986 Lindsey Lohan, American actor