Birkenhead Park Rugby Club

Full name	Birkenhead Park Rugby Union Football Club
Union	Rugby Football Union
Founded	1871
Ground(s)	Birkenhead Park
Chairman	Greig Casey
League(s)	North One
Team kit
Official website
www.birkenheadparkrugby.com

Birkenhead Park Rugby Club is an English rugby union team based in Birkenhead, Wirral. The team was founded in 1871, the same year as the Rugby Football Union.

[edit] Club history

Birkenhead Park was formed from the emalgamation of two smaller clubs, Claughton and Birkenhead Wanderers during the 1871/72 season.^[1] After an initial period where the club failed to find any form, the season of 1877/78 saw the team losing only two matches from 19. The club was central to the formation of the Cheshire County Union, and in 1887 Birkenhead Park was chosen as the venue for the Home Nations clash between Wales and Ireland; the first time a Home Nations Championship game had ever been played on neutral soil.

Despite their current position in the Rugby Union Pyramid, the club have a rich history and have hosted the New Zealand All Blacks team on four occasions most recently in 1978.

[edit] Notable Former Players

[edit] British Lions

• Paul Robert Clauss 1891
• Elliot Nicholson (1899)
• Frank Croft Hulme (1904)
• R.B. Maxwell (1924)
• Thomas Knowles (1930)

[edit] International players while at Birkenhead Park

• James Baxter
• Paul Robert Clauss
• Frank Croft Hulme
• Elliot Nicholson
• John Paterson

[edit] Other notable players

• Ian Buckett
• Austin Healey

[edit] External links

• Birkenhead Park website

[edit] References