St Helen’s ArchivePreserving the past for the future
Item
OT099
Object ID
OT099
Type
Rights Holder
CIC
Provenance
Peter Owens
Season
Description
Ten years history of Swansea Football Club. Item has been digitalised.
Info
An Almanac drawn from newspaper reports and published in 1897. It shows all the recognised fixtures played by Swansea RFC between 1887-88 and 1896-97. Some pages are missing and some damaged and only partially legible. Only two know copies of this Almanac exist, the other being held by the WRU. Not all the details are correct as errors existed in the original news articles. But the book represents the first attempt to describe the story of Swansea Rugby Club and is of historic value for that and for its comments on the games.
Keywords
almanac, 1987, 1896, history of swansea rfc,
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