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The 1890-91 Season
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1891-92

1890-91 saw the second season of Tom Graham's captaincy and by Newport standards it was an average season. Newport played the whole season without star player Arthur Gould who had gone to the West Indies but the team of the future was being built. New faces included Tom Pook, A. E. Henshaw, Mat Hannan and W. Groves. Cardiff were beaten twice but Newport also lost twice to Cardiff. Incredibly Newport lost 4 times to Swansea. The only other defeat was at Devonport Albion.

Arthur Boucher played in all 27 games with T. England, Bert Gould, Charlie Thomas, Percy Phillips and T. Newcombe each missing just one game with 26 appearances. Charlie Thomas once again headed the scorers with 12t followed by George Thomas with 9t.

Newport United beat Swansea Harlequins in the final of the South Wales Challenge Cup at Rodney Parade by 6pts. to Nil. The Cup had been revived for junior and second teams and they also completed an invincible season with a record of P20 W19 D1 under captain W. E. Dowle. James Webbe, Fred Parfitt and Bert Dauncy all played for the United this season.

At least one other game would have been played as The Western Mail of 17th January 1891 reported:-

"RUGBY V NEWPORT MATCH OFF" - "On Friday afternoon Mr W. Clifford Phillips, Secretary of the Newport club, received a telegram from the secretary of the Rugby Football Club stating that his team refused to play to-day (Saturday) at Newport on account of the severe weather."

On 3rd January 1891 Wales played England at Rodney Parade losing by 3pts. to 7.



  • Results
  • Squad
1
Newport
3
- 0Cardiff Harlequins
20 Sep
2
Penarth
5
- 5Newport
27 Sep
3
Swansea
14
- 11Newport
04 Oct
4
Newport
9
- 0Exeter Chiefs
11 Oct
5
Newport
0
- 5Cardiff
18 Oct
6
Wellington
0
- 4Newport
25 Oct
7
Newport
3
- 0Harlequins
01 Nov
8
Newport
0
- 3Swansea
08 Nov
9
Moseley
0
- 0Newport
15 Nov
10
Coventry
0
- 11Newport
17 Nov
11
Cardiff
13
- 8Newport
22 Nov
12
Newport
18
- 5St Thomas Hospital
04 Dec
13
Newport
6
- 5Penarth
06 Dec
14
Exeter Chiefs
5
- 14Newport
13 Dec
15
Newport
35
- 0Devon
26 Dec
16
Newport
11
- 3London Welsh
27 Dec
17
Newport
0
- 0Old Merchant Taylors
01 Jan
18
Newport
13
- 3Cardiff Harlequins
21 Jan
19
Newport
11
- 0Cardiff
31 Jan
20
Newport
17
- 3Wellington
14 Feb
21
Cardiff Harlequins
5
- 15Newport
17 Feb
22
Newport
18
- 0Moseley
21 Feb
23
Swansea
34
- 0Newport
28 Feb
24
Cardiff
0
- 15Newport
14 Mar
25
Newport
0
- 3Swansea
21 Mar
26
Newport
11
- 9Leigh
28 Mar
27
Devonport Albion
7
- 0Newport
30 Mar
28
Redruth
0
- 3Newport
31 Mar

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