Hartlepool Rovers Third Team at the end of the 1912/13 season having annexed the Third Teams Cup against North Durham III from Gateshead to make it a treble with their 1st and 2nd XVs who had also won their respective County Cups!
Rovers III was also a member of the Pyman League at this time, having taken part also at the Leagues inception in 1903/04 season.
Date (of image) : 1913
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Creator : Alfred Price, 91 Durham Street, Hartlepool
Location
A selection of items from the Collections reflecting the Rovers 2nd XV and their activities in the early decade of the Club. It is also well worth a glance at the 2nd/3rd Teams Cup records to see just how successful they were on the Knockout Rugby front. Although founder members of the Pyman League fielding either their 2nd or 3rd XVs they did not win the Cup until the mid-thirties.
Also on this Gallery is a set of images from the pre–Great War era stating from Season 1906-07 when the 2nds and 3rd won their Cup Comps. 1912/13 ended with them holding the Senior, 2nd, and 3rd Teams cups once again.
More detail »Images of some of the Pyman League Clubs in the years before the Great War, the posters are Sandwich Board items which wuld have posted around the two towns on the morning of the game, advertising the days Rugby Fayre on the Friarage Field. Few pictures, medals or records appear to have survived from this time.
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