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Athletic Ground

 Richmond Athletic Association Ground
Old Deer Park
Kew Foot Road
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 2SF

P 1 W 1 D 0 L 1 F 5: A 2
100% successful
1893

opened 1886
Home club Essentially a rugby ground, used by Old Tonbridgians RFC since 2009, and RFU teams, Richmond FC, since 1889 and London Scottish FC, since 1894.
Capacity 4,500
First match not known
On 7 March 1891, the ground hosted the Rugby Home Championship, as England lost 9-3 to Scotland. When it helf the Football equivalent two years later, it became the first ground to host the two codes of Rugby and Association Football. There would be ten more Rugby international matches held here, until 1909.

England Career
Venue number 23
Only match No. 49, 1 April 1893, England 5 Scotland 2, a British Championship match.
Major tournaments British Championships 1892-93;

1867

1894

1910

1933

1944

2019

 
 
1 1 0 0 5 2 +3 0 0 5 2 100 +1
Competition P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
British Championship 1 1 0 0 5 2 +3 0 0 5.00 2.00 100.0 +1

Tournament Record
  
British Championship Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1892-93 1 1 0 0 5 2 +3 0 0 5.00 2.00 100.0 +1
BC All 1 1 0 0 5 2 +3 0 0 5.00 2.00 100.0 +1

All Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1 1 0 0 5 2 +3 0 0 5.00 2.00 100.0 +1
1 1 0 0 5 2 +3 0 0 5 2 100 +1

   

England's Results at The Athletic Ground
 
49 1 April 1893 - England 5 Scotland 2 [1-1] (16,000) Gosling, Cotterill, Spiksley (3)
 Waddell, Sellar		 BC HW


England's International Trial Results at The Athletic Ground
27 15 March 1894 - Whites 2 Stripes 1 [0-1] (tbc) Southworth (2)
Smith
Whites: Leslie Gay, Jimmy Crabtree, Fred Pelly, Jack Reynolds, Johnny Holt, Jimmy Turner, Billy Bassett, Jimmy Whitehead, Jack Southworth, Denny Hodgetts, Fred Spiksley.
Stripes: Billy Moon, M.Earp, Vaughan Lodge, George Kinsey, Norman Cooper, Arthur Topham, Robert Topham, George Cotterill, Gilbert Smith, Edgar Chadwick, H.Bentley.

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