Charlie Mathers
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Charles Mathers | |||||
| Born | April→June 1860 Hunslet, England |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1888–≥88 | Bramley | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Yorkshire | ≥14 | |||||
| 1888 | British Isles | 25 | 7 | |||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Source: espnscrum.com | ||||||
Charles "Charlie" Mathers (birth registered April→June 1860[1] — death unknown) birth registered in Hunslet, was a rugby union footballer of the 1880s, playing at representative level for British Isles, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Bramley, as a Forward. Prior to Tuesday 2 June 1896, Bramley were a rugby union club.
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Playing career
International honours
Charlie Mathers won cap(s) for British Isles while at Bramley on the 1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia.[2]
Change of code
When Bramley converted from the rugby union code to the Northern Union code on Tuesday 2 June 1896, Charlie Mathers would have been approximately 36 years of age. Consequently, he may have been both a rugby union and Northern Union footballer for Bramley.
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