Defunct English semi-professional rugby league club
Morecambe RFC
Club information
Full name
Morecambe Rugby Football Club
Colours
black and white hoops
Founded
1876; 148 years ago (1876)
Exited
1906; 118 years ago (1906)
Former details
Ground(s)
Moss Lane, Morecambe
Competition
1905–06 Northern Rugby Football Union season
Morecambe Rugby Football Club was a semi-professional rugby league club. The club was based in Morecambe, a resort town now within the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England.
The club played semi-professional rugby league for a total of 8 seasons in all. They first became members of the Northern Rugby Football Union (now Rugby Football League) for three continuous seasons from 1896–97 to 1898–99.
After finishing bottom of the Lancashire Senior Competition in 1899 and losing a promotion play off with Millom, the club spent the next two seasons in the Lancashire Second Competition. Promoted back to the Lancashire Senior Competition in 1901, playing another four seasons from 1901–02 to 1905–06. At the end of season 1905–06 the club left the league, at which point Jack Bartholomew (the uncle of the comedian Eric Morecambe) left the club and joined Huddersfield, he would later play for Great Britain, and Bradford Northern.[1]
^"Jack Bartholomew at huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk". huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
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