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LEICESTER TIGERS v BRIVE
Tigers History
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ON THIS DAY 1890: In the eighth game of
the club’s debut season, they beat Moseley by the score of 1 try and 1 goal to nil. All other details of the match, almost uniquely in the club’s archives, have disappeared.
1886: Rushden were beaten
2-1 at Leicester’s Victoria Park home with scores from Sherrard Coleman and William Sheffield. The opportunity for a repeat at Christmas was postponed due to frost. 1897: Frank Jones supplied the only score in a 3-0 win away to Manchester. 1909: A crowd of 7,000
witnessed an 8-3 win at Northampton with Kenneth Wood - who would gain selection for the British Isles tour to South Africa in 1910 claiming a try and Harry Lawrie adding a conversion and a goal from the mark, a scoring option which would survive into the 1970s. 1920: Norman Coates, a
centre who would play in 38 of the 41 games in the season, was the tryscorer in a 6-5 win over Blackheath.
1926: Tigers lost 18-6 away
to Blackheath. 1937: Eric Bevins, Raymond
Clark and Frank Herbert - who would end the season as top try and points scorer - were on the scoresheet in an 11-9 win at Blackheath.
1948: Tigers enjoyed another successful trip to Blackheath, winning 10-3 in London. 1954: Second-row Jim Ford
made his debut in a 9-11 defeat at Blackheath.
1965: Mike Harrison grabbed
the only try in a 6-3 win over Blackheath, with Graham Pulfrey adding a penalty. 1971: Bob Barker and Robin
Money were among the tryscorers in a close game against Blackheath. The other scorer in a 15-13 victory was back-row Chris Baynes, one of the 37 he scored in 116 appearances, and who sadly passed away recently at the age of 73.
11 2005: A full-house crowd
of 16,815 cheered a 30-12 victory over Ospreys in the Heineken Cup, with Austin Healey providing the bonus-point score in the last minute after earlier tries from Brett Deacon, Harry Ellis and George Chuter. Tigers completed a home-andaway double a week later but eventually lost to Bath in the quarter-final at the home of neighbours Leicester City.
2010: A losing bonus point from a 19-24 defeat away to Perpignan - who had future Leicester player and coach David Mélé at scrum-half - kept Tigers top of their pool in the Heineken Cup.
1976: The John Player
Cup trip to Wakefield was postponed for a second time due to frost. At the third time of asking, six weeks later, Tigers would record a 17-6 victory but exited in the next round at Moseley. 1982: Forwards trio Dean
Richards, Rob Tebbutt and Martin Whitcombe scored tries in a 28-21 triumph at Blackheath.
1993: Tigers stayed in second place in the Courage League table with a 21-9 win over Bristol at Welford Road, with fly-half Jez Harris kicking all of the points.
2011: Ben Youngs claimed a
try in a 12-30 defeat away to Clermont Auvergne in the Heineken Cup, in a game which included simultaneous yellow cards for George Chuter and Manu Tuilagi.
