County Championship
Edgeley Park, Stockport, England
Referee:  Unknown
Head 2 Head
Previous Results
Date Home Team Result Away Team Season
7 Nov 1896Yorkshire17 - 10Cheshire1896-97
12 Feb 1896Cheshire6 - 16Yorkshire1895-96
25 Nov 1895Yorkshire5 - 9Cheshire1895-96
Cheshire Lineup
 Num  PlayerAge   Tries   Goals   Drops   Points 
1 Knocker Houghton (Runcorn)        
2 Billy Robinson (Stockport)        
3 Fred Saville (Stockport) 1     3
4 James Butterworth (Runcorn)        
5 Jack Watson (Birkenhead Wanderers)        
6 Jack Faulkner (Runcorn)        
7 Jimmy Jolley (Runcorn)23        
8 Alf Taylor (Runcorn)        
9 Richard Rees (Runcorn)        
10 Sam Walker (Runcorn)        
11 Bill Milligan (Stockport)        
12 Will Palmer (Stockport)        
13 Harry Moss (Stockport)        
14 Harry Barnett (Altrincham)        
15 George Ingham (Birkenhead Wanderers)        
Total:        
1 0 0 3
Yorkshire Lineup
 Num  PlayerAge   Tries   Goals   Drops   Points 
1 Jimmy Metcalfe (Wakefield Trinity)        
2 Fred Cooper (Bradford) 1 4   11
3 Dicky Lockwood (Wakefield Trinity)   1   2
4 Bairstow Pollard (Bradford)        
5 Wattie Davies (Batley)        
6 Archie Rigg (Halifax) 2     6
7 George Mosley (Leeds Parish Church) 1     3
8 Tom Broadley (Bradford)        
9 Jim Gath (Batley)        
10 Albert Kemp (Hull Kingston Rovers)        
11 Milford Sutcliffe (Huddersfield)        
12 Archie Starks (Hull Kingston Rovers)        
13 Bill Walton (Wakefield Trinity)        
14 John Ward (Castleford)        
15 Herbert Milnes (Holbeck)        
Total:        
4 5 0 22



    Note: Those players whose number appears in bracketed italics are non-playing substitutes.