1882 Southern Rugby Union season

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1882 Sydney Rugby Premiership
DurationMay to August
Teams18
Premiers Sydney University
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The 1882 Southern Rugby Union season was the ninth season of the Sydney Rugby Premiership. Several clubs competed from May till August 1882. The season culminated in intercolonial matches against a touring Queensland team, and a tour to New Zealand by a team representing the Union.

Teams[edit]

By the beginning of the season, the Southern Rugby Football Union had 35 clubs signed up as part of the Union.[1] The SRFU annual report for 1882, presented at the SRFU annual general meeting in April 1883, mentioned that 12 new clubs had registered with the Union.[2]

Club Colour Region Classification AGM Fixtures AR M W L D
Arfoma City [3] [4] 11 8
Balmain Suburban Senior [5] [6]
Bathurst Country Senior [7] 8 5 2 1
Burwood Suburban Senior [8] [9] [10] 10 7 2 1
Carlton County of Cumberland [9]
Glebe City Junior [11] [12] 12 8 3 1
Glenhead City [13]
Goulburn Country [14] [15]
Liverpool County of Cumberland New [16] [17] [18]
Newcastle Country [19] 10 8
Newtown City [20] 12 6
Orientals [21] 12 12 0 0
Parramatta County of Cumberland [22] 3
Pyrmont City [23][24] 14 10 2 2
Randwick Suburban New [25]
Redfern City Senior [26] [27][28] [29] 11 6 5 0
Rugby Suburban [30] [31] 12 10
St. Leonards North Shore [32] [33]
Union County of Cumberland [34] 12 8 3 1
University City Senior [35] [36] [37] 11 10 1 0
Victoria Country [38]
Wallaroo City Senior [39] [40] 12 9 3 0
Wellesley Suburban [41] 9 6 3 0

Representative Games[edit]

Intercolonial Matches[edit]

1st New South Wales – Queensland Intercolonial Football Match
Saturday, 12 August 1882
New South Wales 4G & 4T — 1G Queensland
Tries: Walker, Raper (4), Flynn
Goals: Creer (0/1), Macnamamee (0/2), Flynn (1/2), McLean (1/1)
Drop goals: Raper, Pell
 [42]
 Goals: Pritchard (0/1)
Drop goals: Feez
Association Ground
Attendance: 3000–4000
Referee: R. Arnold

Note: Under the rules then in place for determining the winner, the result was four goals and four tries to one goal. New South Wales' four goals comprised the two converted tries (or touch-downs) and the two drop-goals. The additional four tries were the unsuccessful conversion goal kicks for four out of the six touch-downs. Queensland failed with a penalty place kick at goal, but were successful with a drop goal.

Following their win over the Wallaroo Club on Saturday, 19 August, the Queensland team requested the opportunity to again meet a combined New South Wales side, in a return match. After consultation with the shipping company on which the Queensland team were booked to depart Sydney, arrangements were made to kick-off this second intercolonial game at 2.30pm, Tuesday, and convey the team to the steamer shortly after the game concluded.[43]

2nd New South Wales – Queensland Intercolonial Football Match
Tuesday, 22 August 1882
New South Wales 2G & 4T — nil Queensland
Tries: Raper (2), Clements (2), Tange, Thallon
Goals: Creer (1/3), Brodie (0/1), Cameron (1/2)
Drop goals: Raper (0/1), Walker (0/1)
 [44][45]
Association Ground
Attendance: 500
Referee: Mulcahey

Note: The combined New South Wales team secured six touch-downs, with two of the attempts at goal being successful, and four missed tries. A feature of the game at the time is that when a kick at goal was missed, the defending team (in this case Queensland) would have options to either run the ball into general play or touch-down in their own in-goal to obtain relief.

Other Matches on the Queensland tour[edit]

Queensland's 2nd Tour Match
Tuesday, 15 August 1882
Sydney University 1G & 4T — 1T Queensland
Tries: Amess, Tange, Flynn, Beegling, Rygate
Goals: MacManamee (0/2), Flynn (1/3)
 [46]
 Tries: Townsend
Goals: Pritchard (0/2)
Association Ground
Referee: R. Arnold

Note: Under the rules then in place for determining the winner, the result was a win to University by one goal and four tries to Queensland's one try. Queensland were the first to touch-down, through Townsend, but their conversion attempt, and an earlier penalty kick for goal were missed by Pritchard. Queensland led at half-time by one try to nil. University touched-down five times in the second stanza, with the only successful kick being made by Flynn following his own touch-down.

Queensland's 3rd Tour Match
Wednesday, 16 August 1882
3.20 PM
County of Cumberland 1T — 1G Queensland
Tries: Stettler
Goals: J. Byrne (0/1)
 [47]
 Tries: Markwell
Goals: Pritchard (1/1)
Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta
Referee: W. F. R. Burkitt

Note: Under the rules then in place for determining the winner, the result was a win to Queensland by one goal to one try. Queensland touched-down to earn their kick at goal, which was successful. The County of Cumberland team failed with their kick at goal following their one touch-down, or try.

Queensland's 4th Tour Match
Thursday, 17 August 1882
Combined Suburban Team 1T — nil Queensland
Tries: Thallon
Goals: Cleeve (0/1)
 [48]
 Drop goals: Burrell (0/1)
Association Ground
Attendance: Meagre
Queensland's 5th Tour Match
Saturday, 19 August 1882
Wallaroo nil — 1T & 1G Queensland
[49]
 Tries: Feez, Townson
Goals: Pritchard (1/2)
Association Ground
Attendance: About 1,600
Referee: Raper

Note: Queensland beat the Wallroo club by a margin of one goal and one try to nil. For Queensland, Pritchard missed the kick following the touch-down by Feez, but was successful with the kick following a touch-down by Townson.

New South Wales Tour of New Zealand[edit]

The Southern Rugby Football Union arranged for a New South Wales team to tour New Zealand, with the support of rugby union associations and the host venues. E. Raper from the University club was appointed captain and manager, with R. Thallon, of Balmain club, as secretary.[50] The team departed Sydney on August 30, 1882.[51]

The team comprised the following 16 players.[50]

Player Club
Hawkins Balmain
Howard Balmain
R Thallon Balmain
McClatchie Burwood
Jennings Glenhead
Walker Redfern
Hill St. Leonards
Addison University
Barry University
HM Baylis University
Flynn University
Mann University
EJ Raper University
Graham Wallaroo
HB Fligg Wallaroo
Richmond Wallaroo

Other Football Codes[edit]

Match reports and other relevant articles in 1882 newspapers generally did not make an immediately obvious distinction between football codes. Several clubs played Australian Rules Football under the auspices, and in affiliation with, the New South Wales Football Association. In many instances, the code being reported on in newspapers could be determined by tries and touch-downs in Rugby Union and behinds in Australian Rules.

Australian Rules Football[edit]

The following New South Wales clubs played Australian rules football in the 1882 season.

Club Colour Region Classification AGM Fixtures AR M W L D
East Sydney City [52] [36] [53]
Sydney City [54] [36] [55] 12 9 1 2
Norrthumberland (West Maitland) Country [25] [56] 4 0 3 1
Our Boys (Sydney) [57][58] [59] 8 3 3 2
Petersham Suburban [60] [61]
Waratahs [62] [36] [63]

The New South Wales Football Association made arrangements for Victorian clubs Carlton and Hotham, to visit and play matches at the Association Ground in June.[9] This proposed tour did not eventuate.[64]

The Geelong Football Club did visit Sydney playing three of the clubs, a combined team, and Albury.

1882 Geelong tour of New South Wales
Saturday, 9 July, 2:55pm East Sydney 0.7 def. by Geelong 7.15 Association Ground (crowd: 300) Report[65]
Tuesday, 11 July, 3:00pm Sydney 1.1 def. by Geelong 15.22 Association Ground (crowd: 500—600) Reports[66][67]
Thursday, 13 July, 2:45pm Petersham 0.2 def. by Geelong 5.17 Association Ground Reports[68][69]
Saturday, 15 July, 3:00pm New South Wales 2.1 def. by Geelong 6.21 Association Ground (crowd: 2000—3000) Reports[70][71]
Tuesday, 18 July Albury United 0.2 def. by Geelong 4.18 Albury, New South Wales Report[72]

Soccer[edit]

The following New South Wales clubs played English Association Football (soccer) in the 1882 season.

Club Colour Region Classification AGM Fixtures AR M W L D
Arcadian City Senior [73] [74] 8 7 1 0

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