| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Ferguson | |||||
| Born | Ellenborough, Cumberland, England | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Fullback, Prop, Hooker, Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1899–23 | Oldham | 627 | 58 | 540 | 0 | 1254 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Cumberland | 15 | |||||
| Lancashire | 31 | |||||
| 1904–09 | England | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Joseph "Joe" Ferguson was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1890s…1920s who at representative level played for England, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and at club level for Oldham, playing at Fullback, Prop, Hooker, or Second-row, i.e. number 1, 8 or 10, 9, or, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.[1]
Joe Ferguson won a cap for England in the 3-9 defeat to Other Nationalities at Central Park, Wigan on 5 April 1904, in the first ever international rugby league match, and also won caps for England while at Oldham in 1905 against Other Nations, in 1908 against New Zealand, and in 1909 against Wales.[2][3]
At the end of the 1908–09 Northern Rugby Football Union season Ferguson played at hooker in Oldham's loss to Wigan in the Championship Final.[4]
Joe Ferguson is an Oldham Hall Of Fame Inductee.[5]
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