Hartlepool Rovers 1929/30 3rd XV after a very successful season in which they beat West Hartlepool 11-3 to win the 3rd Teams Cup (second Cup from the left)at Clarence Road, beat West Hartlepool SSOB 17 - 8 to win the Pyman Cup (Cup on far right) on Easter Monday by 17 - 8 also on Clarence Road, as well as picking up the Lormor Cup (under 21s?) and the Gibbs Shield (under 18s). Almost by tradition, the Pyman Cup does not have the lid on, this could be due to the fact that then as now, the running figure on the lid has disappeared and a new one is being acquired before the Cup is handed back to the District Union! 

The XV totals around 27 players, so this may also be the 4th Teamers from the club that may have also taken part in the fairly successful Fourth Teams Shield campaign that season.

Unusually for a Rovers pic., the team is sitting in front of the stand on the Friarage Field and not outside the Club.

The Rovers III selection for the 3rds Final was: -

J W Waterson; C Werge: E Gissing; H Horner; H Hewson; T Anderson; J D Claxton; G Copeman; G Hall; H Hastings; T.Hall; H Westoll; H. Innes; R A Roberts; T Warnes; Res T Judge; B Bailey.

Rovers turned out a Fourth XV a week after the Third Teams success to play Gateshead Fell IV in the Shield Final at South Shield going down by 11 pts to 3 pts.

The Fourth team at Shields was: -

D Lloyd; N Parkinson, T McClelland, T Judge, H Lightfoot, R W Hill, J Thompson, T Burke, H Hastings, T Glover, A Fletcher, W Bates, R Kirtley, J Morriss, H Sweating.

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