1903 Home Nations Championship

International rugby union competition 1903 Home Nations Championship 10 January – 21 March 1903 ENGIRE 1783SCOWAL 1807 SCO 5 SCO (4th title) 6 WAL 1807 Jehoida Hodges (9) WAL 1807 Jehoida Hodges (3) 1902 1902 Home Nations Championship 1904 1904 Home Nations Championship The 1903 Home Nations Championship was the twenty first series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 10th January and 21st March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Table main WDL Q 2 points SCO SCO WAL WAL 1807 IRE IRE 1783 ENG ENG 3 0 0 19 6 2 0 1 39 11 1 0 2 6 21 0 0 3 11 37 #ccffcc A complete Matches Wales vs. England 10 January 1903 WAL 1807 21–5 ENG Try: Hodges (3) OwenPearsonCon: Strand- Jones (3) Try: Dobson Con: Taylor St. Helen's, Swansea Robin Welsh (Scotland) Wales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), Fred Jowett (Swansea), Dan Rees (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Tom Pearson (Newport) capt., Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers) England: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), JH Miles (Leicester), RH Spooner (Liverpool), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), T Simpson (Rockcliff), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers) capt., Frank Croft Hulme (Birkenhead Park), G Fraser (Richmond), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni.), R Bradley (West Hartlepool), J Duthie (West Hartlepool), RFA Hobbs (Blackheath), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni.), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), RD Wood (Liverpool OB) Scotland vs. Wales 7 February 1903 SCO 6–0 WAL 1807 Try: Kyle Pen: Timms Inverleith, Edinburgh A Martelli (Ireland) Scotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), JE Crabbie (Oxford Uni.), J Knox (Kelvinside Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Edinburgh University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Kelvinside Acads.), N Kennedy (West of Scotland) Wales: John Strand-Jones (Llanelli), Willie Arnold (Swansea), Dan Rees (Swansea), Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Billy Trew (Swansea), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport) capt., Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers) Ireland vs. England 14 February 1903 IRE 1783 6–0 ENG Try: RyanPen: Corley Lansdowne Road, Dublin Crawford Findlay (Scotland) Ireland: J Fulton (NIFC), HJ Anderson (Old Wesley), DR Taylor (Queen's Uni, Belfast), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), CC Fitzgerald (Dungannon), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University) capt., Thomas Arnold Harvey (Dublin University), George Hamlet (Old Wesley), M Ryan (Rockwell College), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), RS Smyth (Dublin University) England: HT Gamlin (Blackheath), R Forrest (Blackheath), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), JT Taylor (West Hartlepool), T Simpson (Rockcliff), B Oughtred (Hartlepool Rovers) capt., FC Hulme (Birkenhead Park), G Fraser (Richmond), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni.), BA Hill (Blackheath), SG Williams (Devonport Albion), WG Heppell (Devonport Albion), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni.), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), RD Wood (Liverpool OB) Scotland vs. Ireland 28 February 1903 SCO 3–0 IRE 1783 Try: Crabbie Inverleith, Edinburgh FHR Alderson (England) Scotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), C France (Kelvinside Acads), AS Drybrough (Edinburgh Wanderers), JE Crabbie (Oxford Uni.), J Knox (Kelvinside Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Edinburgh University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), David Bedell-Sivright (Cambridge Uni), Mark Coxon Morrison (Royal HSFP) capt., WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Kelvinside Acads.), N Kennedy (West of Scotland) Ireland: J Fulton (NIFC), HJ Anderson (Old Wesley), JB Allison (Edinburgh University), GAD Harvey (Wanderers), CC Fitzgerald (Dungannon), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University) capt., Jos Wallace (Wanderers), George Hamlet (Old Wesley), CE Allen (Derry), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), Samuel Irwin (NIFC), RS Smyth (Dublin University) Wales vs. Ireland 14 March 1903 WAL 1807 18–0 IRE 1783 Try: Llewellyn (2)GabeMorgan (2)Brice Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff Percival Coles (England) Wales: Bert Winfield (Cardiff), Willie Llewellyn (London Welsh), Gwyn Nicholls (Cardiff) capt., Rhys Gabe (Llanelli), Teddy Morgan (London Welsh), Dicky Owen (Swansea), Llewellyn Lloyd (Newport), Jehoida Hodges (Newport), Will Joseph (Swansea), Will Osborne (Mountain Ash), Arthur Harding (Cardiff), Alfred Brice (Aberavon), David Jones (Treherbert), George Boots (Newport), George Travers (Pill Harriers) Ireland: J Fulton (NIFC), G Bradshaw (Belfast Collegians), James Cecil Parke (Dublin University), C Reid (NIFC), Gerry Doran (Lansdowne), Louis Magee (Bective Rangers), Harry Corley (Dublin University) capt., Jos Wallace (Wanderers), George Hamlet (Old Wesley), CE Allen (Derry), A Tedford (Malone), P Healey (Limerick), JJ Coffey (Lansdowne), F Gardiner (NIFC), TA Harvey (Monkstown) England vs. Scotland 21 March 1903 ENG 6–10 SCO Try: Dobson Forrest Try: Dallas Simson Drop: Timms Athletic Ground Richmond WM Douglas (Wales) England: HT Gamlin(Blackheath), T Simpson (Rockcliff), AT Brettargh (Liverpool OB), EIM Barrett (Lennox), R Forrest (Blackheath) WV Butcher (Streatham & Croydon), PD Kendall (Birkenhead Park) capt., NC Fletcher (OMT), Vincent Cartwright (Oxford Uni.), BA Hill (Blackheath), SG Williams (Devonport Albion), Frank Stout (Richmond), Denys Dobson (Oxford Uni.), PF Hardwick (Percy Park), R Pierce (Liverpool) Scotland: WT Forrest (Hawick), HJ Orr (London Scottish), AN Fell (Edinburgh University), Alec Boswell Timms (Edinburgh University), JS MacDonald (Edinburgh University), J Knox (Kelvinside Acads), ED Simson (Edinburgh University), L West (Edinburgh University), AG Cairns (Watsonians), WE Kyle (Hawick), J Ross (London Scottish), John Dallas (Watsonians), WP Scott (West of Scotland), James Greenlees (Kelvinside Acads.) capt., N Kennedy (West of Scotland) Bibliography Godwin Terry The International Rugby Championship 1883–1983 1984 Willows Books London 0-00-218060-X Griffiths John The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records 1987 Phoenix House London 0-460-07003-7 External links http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/6nations.htm 6 Nations History rugbyfootballhistory.com 7 March 2008 1902–03 Category:1902–03 in British rugby union Category:1902–03 in English rugby union rugby union rugby union Category:1902–03 in Scottish rugby union Home Home Home