Other Nationalities rugby league team

Other Nationalities
Team results
First game
 England 3–9 Other Nationalities
(Wigan, England; 5 April 1904)
Biggest win

 England 10–35 Other Nationalities
(Wigan, England; 11 April 1951)

Other Nationalities 30–5 Wales 
(Bradford, England; 7 October 1953)

Biggest defeat
Lancashire Lancashire 36–7 Other Nationalities
(St. Helens, England; 25 November 1975)

The Other Nationalities rugby league team regularly played international, and also county, rugby league football teams in Europe from 1904 to 1975. The team, created in 1904 to play England in the first ever rugby league international match,[1] was at first made up of Welsh and Scottish players. However, as rugby league in England grew, and more players from other countries were brought over to England to play in the domestic competitions, Other Nationalities were later represented by players from Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Other Nationalities wore green shirts.

Two Scottish players featured in the first ever Rugby League test match, played in 1907 between a Northern Union representative XIII and a team of Other Nationalities, George Frater captaining the victorious Other Nationalities.[2] England were the most regular opponents for the Other Nationalities team, having played them 15 times. But in the 1950s, on entry to the European Nations Cup, they also played Wales and France. In 1964 Other Nationalities played their only match in the Southern Hemisphere in a one-off match vs Sydney Colts at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The match was played as a curtain-raiser to the Australia vs France 3rd Test and was arranged in order to boost the attendance due to France's poor form on tour. The team was made up of foreign players from the NSWRL competition that year plus two Frenchmen that missed selection in France's 3rd Test team. In 1965, Other Nationalities also played New Zealand in a Kiwi tour match at Crystal Palace, London. In 1974 and 1975 the team competed in the County Championship, facing Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumbria, twice each over both years.

Since 1975 the team became redundant, with Wales, Scotland and Ireland now having their own separate national teams and European-based New Zealanders now able to play for their country too. However, due to the success of the Australia's All Stars match between the Indigenous All Stars and the NRL All Stars, new England head coach Steve McNamara proposed a plan to revive the concept, under the name Exiles, in 2011 in a hope of providing England with a more challenging opposition in preparation of playing and staying competitive against nations like Australia and New Zealand after the 2010 thrashing of France 60-6 followed by England's poor results in the 2010 Four Nations Tournament.

Results (Incomplete)

Date Result Competition Venue Attendance
5 April 1904  England 3-9 Other Nationalities Friendly Central Park, Wigan 6,000
2 January 1905  England 26-11 Other Nationalities Friendly Park Avenue, Bradford 6,000
1 January 1906  England 3-3 Other Nationalities Friendly Central Park, Wigan 8,000
5 February 1921  England 33-16 Other Nationalities Friendly Lonsdale Park, Workington
15 October 1924  England 17-23 Other Nationalities Friendly Headingley, Leeds 3,000
4 February 1926  England 37-11 Other Nationalities Friendly Recreation Ground, Whitehaven 7,000
20 March 1929  England 27-20 Other Nationalities Friendly Headingley, Leeds 5,000
7 April 1930  England 19-35 Other Nationalities Friendly Thrum Hall, Halifax 2,000
1 October 1930  England 31-18 Other Nationalities Friendly Knowsley Road, St Helens 10,000
30 March 1933  England 34-27 Other Nationalities Friendly Lonsdale Park, Workington 11,000
19 September 1949  England 7-13 Other Nationalities 1949–50 European Rugby League Championship Derwent Park, Workington 17,500
22 October 1949  Wales 5-6 Other Nationalities 1949–50 European Rugby League Championship The Park, Abertillery 2,000
15 January 1950  France 8-3 Other Nationalities 1949–50 European Rugby League Championship Stade Vélodrome, Marseille 25,000
10 December 1950  France 16-3 Other Nationalities 1950–51 European Rugby League Championship Stade du Parc Lescure, Bordeaux 28,000
31 March 1951  Wales 21-27 Other Nationalities 1950–51 European Rugby League Championship St Helens Rugby Ground, Swansea 5,000
11 April 1951  England 10-35 Other Nationalities 1950–51 European Rugby League Championship Central Park, Wigan 17,000
3 November 1951 Other Nationalities 17-14  France 1951–52 European Rugby League Championship Craven Park, Hull 18,000
1 December 1951  Wales 11-22 Other Nationalities 1951–52 European Rugby League Championship The Park, Abertillery 3,386
23 April 1952  England 31-18 Other Nationalities 1951–52 European Rugby League Championship Central Park, Wigan 20,000
18 October 1952  England 12-31 Other Nationalities 1952–53 European Rugby League Championship Fartown Ground, Huddersfield 20,000
23 November 1952  France 10-29 Other Nationalities 1952–53 European Rugby League Championship Stade Vélodrome, Marseille 18,000
15 April 1953 Other Nationalities 16-18  Wales 1952–53 European Rugby League Championship Wilderspool, Warrington 8,449
7 October 1953 Other Nationalities 30-5  Wales 1953–54 European Rugby League Championship Odsal Stadium, Bradford 14,646
18 October 1953  France 15-10 Other Nationalities 1953–54 European Rugby League Championship Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux 12,000
28 November 1953  England 30-22 Other Nationalities 1953–54 European Rugby League Championship Central Park, Wigan 19,000
12 September 1955  England 33-16 Other Nationalities 1955–56 European Rugby League Championship Central Park, Wigan 18,234
19 October 1955 Other Nationalities 32-19  France 1955–56 European Rugby League Championship Hilton Park, Leigh 7,000
18 July 1964 Sydney Colts 25-16 Other Nationalities Curtain-raiser to Australia vs France 3rd Test Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 16,731
18 August 1965 Other Nationalities 7-15  New Zealand Kiwi Tour Match Crystal Palace, London
11 September 1974 Lancashire Lancashire 14-13 Other Nationalities County Championship The Willows, Salford 2,000
18 September 1974 Yorkshire Yorkshire 6-104 Other Nationalities County Championship Craven Park, Hull
25 September 1974 Cumbria Cumbria ?-? Other Nationalities County Championship Recreation Ground, Whitehaven
25 November 1975 Lancashire Lancashire 36-7 Other Nationalities County Championship Knowsley Road, St Helens 29,000
6 December 1975 Yorkshire Yorkshire 8-68 Other Nationalities County Championship Odsal Stadium, Bradford
20 December 1975 Cumbria Cumbria 19-14Other Nationalities County Championship Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness

Player statistics (incomplete)

NameSurnameClubNationalityGamesTriesGoalsDropsPoints
Trevor Allan Allan Leigh Australia AUS 4 3 0 0 9
Andrews 1 0 0 4
Vic Armbruster Armbruster Rochdale Hornets Australia AUS 1 0 0 3
Ambrose Baker 1924 Baker Oldham Wales WAL 1
David "Dave" Barends †† Barends Bradford Northern South Africa SAF 2 0 0 8
Robert "Bob" Bartlett Bartlett (Bramley circa-1948) Leeds Australia AUS 1 0 0 4
Harry Bath Bath Warrington Australia AUS 10 1 20 0 44
John "Jack" R. Beames (No.11/No.12) circa-1913…22 Beames Halifax Wales WAL 1
Beattie 1 0 0 4
Brian Bevan (No.2) circa-1951 Bevan Warrington Australia AUS 15 26 0 0 104
Neville Black Black 3 1 0 0 4
David Booysen Booysen Wigan South Africa SAF 1 0 0 4
Billy Boston Boston Wigan Wales WAL 3 0 0 12
P. J. Brady (No.7) circa-1904 † Brady Huddersfield Wales WAL
Lou Brown Brown Wigan New Zealand NZ 5 0 0 20
Herbert Buckler (No.12) circa-1904 † Buckler Salford Wales WAL
Jeffrey "Jeff" Burke (No.12) circa-1951 Burke Leigh
Joe Busch Busch Leeds Australia AUS 1 1 0 0 4
T. Cheshire Cheshire Bramley
Arthur Clues (No.11) circa-1951 Clues Leeds / Hunslet Australia AUS 14 2 0 0 8
Percy Coldrick circa-1921 Coldrick Wigan Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Bert Cook Cook Leeds / Keighley / Dewsbury New Zealand NZ 0 3 0 6
Lionel Cooper (No.5) circa-1951 Cooper Huddersfield Australia AUS 14 11 0 0 44
Kel Coslett Coslett St. Helens Wales WAL 1 0 2 0 4
Jack Daly Daly Huddersfield / Featherstone Rovers Ireland IRE 7 1 0 0 4
Dan Davies Davies Swinton Wales WAL 1 2 0 0 8
Eli Davies circa-1904 † Davies Wigan Wales WAL
William Davies circa-1921 Davies Leeds Wales WAL 1 0 0 0
Jim Dechan circa-1905 Dechan Bradford Scotland SCO? 1 0 0 4
Pat Devery (No.4) circa-1951 Devery Huddersfield Australia AUS 11 3 19 0 50
Wyndham Emery Emery Leigh Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Frank Evans Evans Swinton Wales WAL 2 1 0 0 4
Fielding Fielding Salford Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
C. Forster Forster Bramley
Ike J. Fowler circa-1921 Fowler Batley Wales WAL
George Frater (No.10) (Captain) circa-1904 † Frater Oldham Scotland SCO
Bruce Gibbs circa-1975 Gibbs Workington Town Australia AUS
Bryn Goldswain 1955 Goldswain Oldham Wales WAL 1
Bernard Gould circa-1921 Gould Leeds Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Gordon Gray Gray Huddersfield Scotland SCO 1 0 0 4
Ben Gronow circa-1921 Gronow Huddersfield Wales WAL 1 1 5 0 13
Gomer Gunn circa-1905 Gunn Bradford Wales WAL 0 1 0 2
Trevor Hall Hall St. Helens / Rochdale Hornets New Zealand NZ 1 0 0 4
Roy Hardgrave Hardgrave St. Helens / York New Zealand NZ 1 0 0 4
Dai Harris circa-1904 † Harris Wigan Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
Harrison ? 2 0 0 8
Peter Henderson (No.6) circa-1951 Henderson Huddersfield New Zealand NZ 4 0 0 16
Andrew Hogg Hogg Broughton Scotland SCO
Johnny Hunter (No.1) circa-1951 Hunter Huddersfield Australia AUS 8 0 0 0 0
Lou Hutt Hutt St. Helens New Zealand NZ 1 0 0 4
James ? 1 0 0 4
Francis Jarvis Jarvis Bradford Northern
Jenkins ? Wales WAL? 1 0 0 4
Sidney Jerram circa-1921 Jerram Wigan Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Lewis Jones Jones Wales WAL 2 1 9 0 21
Cec Kelly (No.7) circa-1951 Kelly Rochdale Hornets 6 1 0 0 4
Robert "Bob" Kelly (No.10/No.11) circa-1955…56 Kelly Wakefield Trinity Ireland IRE
Bill Kilpatrick 1930 Kilpatrick Oldham 1
Roy Kinnear Kinnear Wigan Scotland SCO 3 3 0 0 12
Alex Laidlaw circa-1905 Laidlaw Bradford Scotland SCO
David J. Lewis (No.5) circa-1904 † Lewis Oldham Wales WAL
Steve Llewellyn Llewellyn St. Helens Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
T. D. Llewellyn (No.3) circa-1904 † Llewellyn Leeds Wales WAL
Tommy Lynch Lynch Halifax New Zealand NZ 4
Len Mason Mason Wigan New Zealand NZ 4 1 0 0 4
Tom McKinney (No.9) circa-1951 McKinney Salford Ireland IRE 7 0 0 0 0
Bob McMaster (No.8) circa-1951 McMaster Leeds Australia AUS 6 0 0 0 0
Jim Mills Mills Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
Jim Moffatt (No.9) circa-1904 † Moffatt Leeds Scotland SCO
Glyn Moses Moses Salford / St. Helens Wales WAL
Rex Mossop Mossop Leigh Australia AUS
Cecil Mountford Mountford Wigan New Zealand NZ
Johnny Mudge (No.10) circa-1951 Mudge Workington Town Australia AUS 13 1 0 0 4
Andrew Murdison Murdison Halifax Scotland SCO 1 0 0 4
Tony Paskins (No.3) circa-1951 Paskins Workington Town Australia AUS 11 2 0 0 8
Joe Phillips? Phillips Bradford Northern New Zealand NZ 0 13 0
Ray Price Price Warrington Wales WAL 2
Ron Pomering - circa 1975 Pomering Bramley Australia AUS 3 0 0
Wick Powell circa-1921 Powell Rochdale Hornets Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
L. Proctor Proctor 1 0 0 4
Rees circa-1905 Bradford Wales WAL?
Dai Rees Rees Halifax Wales WAL 1
Jack Rhapps (No.8) circa-1904 † Rhapps Salford Wales WAL
J. Robinson Robinson 3 0 0 12
Johnny Rogers circa-1921 Rogers Huddersfield Wales WAL 1 1 0 0 4
Dai Smith (No.1) circa-1904 † Smith Salford Wales WAL
Frank Stephens 20 March 1929 Stephens Wigan Wales WAL 1
Jim Sullivan Sullivan Wigan Wales WAL 6 0 22 0 44
Dai Thomas (No.11) circa-1904 † Thomas Oldham Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
D. Thomas (No.2) circa-1904 † Thomas Salford Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
P. Thomas Thomas Wales WAL 1 0 0 4
Gwyn Thomas circa-1921 Thomas Huddersfield Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Joe Thompson Thompson Leeds Wales WAL 5 1 0 0 4
G. M. John Thorley Thorley Halifax Wales WAL 2
Dave Valentine (No.13) circa-1951 Valentine Huddersfield Scotland SCO 16 2 0 0 8
Rob Valentine Valentine Keighley Scotland SCO
Attie van Heerden van Heerden Wigan South Africa SAF 2 0 0 8
Wallace Scotland SCO? 0 0 1 1
White 1 0 0 4
H. Whitney circa-1921 Whitney Salford Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Bryn Williams circa-1921 Williams Batley Wales WAL 1 0 0 0 0
Fred Willis circa-1921 Willis Batley Wales WAL
George Wilson Wilson Workington Town Scotland SCO 1 0 0 4

† 5 April 1904 match, against England, was a 12-a-side game without a Loose forward/Lock.

†† Although originally from South Africa, David "Dave" Barends also represented Great Britain.


Harry Bath, born in Brisbane, Queensland, played for the Other Nationalities team whilst playing for Warrington. He kicked 20 goals, a tally that is second only to Jim Sullivan. He also scored 1 try to score 44 points overall. On returning to Australia he played for St George Dragons and coached the Australian national team, despite never playing for them.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The History Of Rugby League". Rugby League Information. napit.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Scotland". rlwc2013.com. Rugby League International Federation. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
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