Today: Previously - August 20th

Today: Previously  -  August 20th

Rugby League

Rovers first ever game on August 20th came in 1949 when they beat Bramley 23-17 at the Barley Mow ground.

In 1963 Fev played Widnes at Naughton Park in the first match of that season. Widnes won that game 11-9.

The Fev team (no subs in those days) that day was:

Jack Fennell; Gary Waterworth, Tony Lynch, Keith Cotton, Gary Jordan; Ivor Lingard, Don Fox; Abe Terry, Willis Fawley, Malcolm Dixon, Terry Ramshaw, Terry Clawson, Stan Nicholson

Terry Ramshaw scored Fev’s only try and Don Fox kicked 3 goals.

Rovers have won their last 4 games (all league ties) to have been played on August 20th -

1965 Halifax (away) 13-5

1978 Huddersfield (home) 23-8
1995 Hull FC (away) 26-20
2006 Blackpool Panthers (away) 38-28

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On August 20th 1999, Wigan inflicted a 58-0 hammering on Hull FC.

Last year, in the Super 8s, Warrington beat Castleford 14-11 in the Super League 8s, Leeds beat London Broncos in the Qualifiers and Toulouse beat Rochdale 46-8 in the League One Super 8s.

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There have been just two test matches on August 20th and they were both played in Auckland between New Zealand and Great Britain. In 1932 Great Britain won 20-18 and in 1966 it was Great Britain winning again, this time by 22-14.

World Events

Usain Bolt

In 1191, Crusader King, Richard I, kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko

In 1741, Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition
In 1882, 1st performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture
In 1913, Adolphe Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump from an aircraft
In 2009, Usain Bolt wins world championship 200m

Birthdays

Sylvester McCoy

1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet and critic
1905 Jack Teagarden, American jazz trombonist
1943 Sylvester McCoy, seventh Doctor Who
1948 Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin vocalist
1980 Francis Meli, Saint Helens, Samoa and New Zealand winger