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1874 - Durham County v Yorkshire

What we know about this image :

 As Yorkshire turned up with 14 men Durham played with only 14 players throughout this match in December of 1874, played on the Cricket Ground in Darlington now better known as Feethams..  In the return match in Leeds, Durham had 20 players available so Yorkshire agreed to a 20 a side match, their only known 20 a side match.

No Hartlepool players were in the team , but it gives a glimpse of the players kit in those days, a County strip was some time off, but some had acquired a St Cuthbert’s Pectoral cross to stitch onto their jersey, this still features in the badges of the County XVs of today. If the date is correct, 1874 was a good year, the County beat Yorkshire home and away in our two County games that season.

The Durham players on the day recorded in the County Archives were W C Best (Darlington), J L Bell (Darlington), W A Kidson (Sunderland), W Hill (Stockton) S C Shewell (Darlington) H P Kyall and J J Kyall (Sunderland) H Peters (Sunderland), J H Brooks (Darlington), J G Wilkes (Darlington), Russell (Darlington), T Thompson (Darlington), S Powell and G M D Trotter (Stockton). The Darlington Club has a record that Tom Wtson captained the side on the day and he is the player with the ball in the photograph?

 

Date (of image) : 12/12/1874

Donor : Darlington RFC

Creator : Unknown

Part of the "Tom Watson" collection

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