1899–1900 Rugby Union County Championship

English rugby union competition 1899–1900 County Championship England Durham 1 Devon 1898–99 1900–01 The 1898–99 Rugby Union County Championship was the 12th edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.Jenkins Vivian Rothmans Rugby Yearbook, 1975-1976 1976 130–131 Brickfield Publications Ltd 0362-00221-5 Durham won the competition for the first time defeating Devon in the final.http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/8eiPt0 "The Rugby Union County Championship." Times, 9 Apr. 1900, p. 12 British Library Newspaper Archiveshttp://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/8eiZM7 ""TO-DAY'S FOOTBALL." Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, 7 Apr. 1900 British Library Newspaper Archives Final 8 April 1900 Devon 3–11 Durham Thomas Carmidy 10,000–13,000 Exeter E B Holmes (Midland Counties) A Richards Barnstaple Sydney Coopper R.N.E College T Mills Plymouth H J Vyvyan Albion H B J Taylor Newton Abbot J Jones Unattached T Dunn Torquay Athletic Charlie Thomas (capt) Barnstaple A O'Neill Torquay Athletic W Spiers Devonport Albion P Baron Sidmouth J Powell Exeter C Avery Plymouth Denys Dobson Newton Abbot & Oxford University E W Roberts R.N.E College J Hegg West Hartlepool W Taylor Tudhoe J Gordon Tudhoe W S Cox Sunderland E W Elliott Sunderland W Moffatt Sunderland H Gibbon Hamsteels J Frater Tudhoe J Carmidy Tudhoe A Stephenson Tudhoe G Richardson Tudhoe George Summerscale Durham City G H Lewis West Hartlepool G Simms West Hartlepool Hamm Tudhoe See also English rugby union system Rugby union in England References Rugby Union County Championship Category:County Championship (rugby union) seasons