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1873 - 1887 - North Eastern Rugby Clubs

The Robt.Wood collection has enabled the names of some of the many early Rugby clubs in the region to survive, with the popularity of the Rugby Code clubs sprang up in many areas in  the 1880s, as that decade rolled on many either ceased playing (finding a field was a regular problem) some amalgamated and as a such survive today albeit under another name.  

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  • 1873 - Castle Eden
  • 1882 - Stockton Rovers
  • 1882 - Sunderland Rovers
  • 1883 - Tees Wanderers - Hartlepool
  • 1887 - Benwell
  • 1887 - Gateshead Institute
  • 1887 - Humbledon
  • 1887 - Middlesbrough Rovers
  • 1887 -Borough of Tynemouth