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Almanac

CIC

Peter Owens

1887-1897

Ten years history of Swansea Football Club. Item has been digitalised.

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.

almanac, 1987, 1896, history of swansea rfc,