Richard Taylor | |||||||
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OVERALL STATISTICS | |||||||
| BIRTH | AGE | SIGNED ON | FROM | ||||
| DEBUT | LAST MATCH | LEFT | |||||
| CAREER | APPEARANCES (SUBS) | ||||||
| TRIES | GOALS | DGOALS | PTS | ||||
Biography of Richard Taylor | ||||
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 HERITAGE NO : 54 Richard Taylor by SHS Richard Taylor, also known as Dick Taylor, was a miner who lived in Devon Street, Newtown, who worked at the Alexandra Colliery in Crossley Road, Thatto Heath. In 1921 Richard was living in Devon Street, St. Helens with his wife, Mary who hailed from St Helens, three sons and a daughter. He was a Coal Miner at the Pilkington Bros Ravenhead Colliery in town. According to his grandson, Brian, he was universally known as ‘Plunger’ Taylor, because he always went in head first. He picked up a knee injury from his playing days, compounded by years down the pit. Yet it did not prevent his regular attendance of an evening at his local, the Nags Head at the bottom of Knowsley Road in his later years. ‘My grandfather was not a small man as such, probably built in the manner of a loose forward and it seems as though he had a fair turn of speed and could play in both the forwards and the backs’ adds Brian. ‘My dad, Richard (Dick) Taylor, was secretary of the Saints supporters club for many years and my mother Kitty ran the refreshment stalls on the ground and I was a regular in the Boys Pen from about 1945. I saw my uncle, Bill Rankin, the front rower, play at Knowsley Road. He had come to the Saints after the war and previously played for the St Helens Recs. Our family have had a long association with the Saints and my dad picked up Tom Van Vollenhoven from the station when he joined the club. Happy memories. I also played for St Helens Rugby Union club at Moss Lane.’ Richard died in 1956 aged 83. | ||||
PLAYER HONOURS | ||||
SEASON STATISTICS | ||||
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| Season (Official Matches) | Tries | Goals | DGoals | Matches |
| 1897~98 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 1898~99 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| TOTALS: | 4 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| Season (Other Matches) | Tries | Goals | DGoals | Matches |
| 1897~98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1898~99 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| TOTALS: | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
ALL MATCHES | ||||
| Date | Match | Pos | Opponents | Comp | Venue | FT | FTO | T | G | DG | ||
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| 6th Nov 1897 | -- | W |
4 | Hull Kingston Rovers * | Fr | A | 24 | 13 | VIEW | |||
| 13th Nov 1897 | 1 | L |
4 | Swinton | L | A | 0 | 13 | VIEW | |||
| 20th Nov 1897 | -- | L |
4 | Birkenhead * | Fr | A | 5 | 6 | VIEW | |||
| 27th Nov 1897 | 2 | L |
4 | Oldham | L | H | 4 | 6 | VIEW | |||
| 4th Dec 1897 | -- | W |
4 | Birkenhead * | Fr | H | 8 | 3 | VIEW | |||
| 11th Dec 1897 | 3 | L |
4 | Stockport | L | A | 7 | 14 | VIEW | |||
| 18th Dec 1897 | 4 | W |
4 | Morecambe | L | A | 3 | 2 | VIEW | |||
| 27th Dec 1897 | 5 | L |
4 | Warrington | L | A | 0 | 8 | VIEW | |||
| 1st Jan 1898 | 6 | L |
4 | Broughton Rangers | L | H | 6 | 23 | VIEW | |||
| 8th Jan 1898 | 7 | L |
8 | Swinton | L | H | 5 | 13 | VIEW | |||
| 15th Jan 1898 | 8 | L |
8 | Tyldesley | L | A | 3 | 8 | VIEW | |||
| 22nd Jan 1898 | 9 | W |
2 | Wigan | L | H | 9 | 8 | VIEW | |||
| 29th Jan 1898 | 10 | W |
12 | Leigh | L | A | 3 | 0 | VIEW | |||
| 5th Feb 1898 | 11 | L |
9 | Rochdale Hornets | L | H | 3 | 6 | VIEW | |||
| 19th Feb 1898 | 12 | W |
13 | Stockport | L | H | 27 | 0 | 1 | VIEW | ||
| 26th Feb 1898 | 13 | L |
13 | Batley | CC1 | A | 7 | 12 | VIEW | |||
| 5th Mar 1898 | -- | L |
15 | Warrington* | Fr | A | 2 | 6 | VIEW | |||
| 8th Mar 1898 | -- | W |
11 | Birkenhead* | Fr | H | 8 | 0 | VIEW | |||
| 11th Mar 1898 | -- | W |
11 | Barrow* | Fr | A | 5 | 3 | VIEW | |||
| 12th Mar 1898 | 14 | D |
13 | Salford | L | H | 14 | 14 | VIEW | |||
| 24th Mar 1898 | -- | L |
12 | Swinton* | Fr | A | 3 | 5 | VIEW | |||
| 26th Mar 1898 | 15 | W |
10 | Runcorn | L | H | 11 | 0 | 1 | VIEW | ||
| 2nd Apr 1898 | 16 | L |
9 | Widnes | L | A | 6 | 7 | VIEW | |||
| 16th Apr 1898 | 17 | D |
8 | Morecambe | L | H | 5 | 5 | VIEW | |||
| 1st Sep 1898 | -- | W |
13 | Salford * | Fr | A | 6 | 0 | VIEW | |||
| 3rd Sep 1898 | 18 | L |
14 | Widnes | L | A | 0 | 6 | VIEW | |||
| 10th Sep 1898 | 19 | L |
8 | Broughton Rangers | L | H | 3 | 13 | VIEW | |||
| 17th Sep 1898 | 20 | L |
8 | Warrington | L | A | 0 | 3 | VIEW | |||
| 24th Sep 1898 | 21 | W |
8 | Morecambe | L | A | 8 | 0 | VIEW | |||
| 24th Dec 1898 | 22 | L |
11 | Salford | L | A | 2 | 13 | VIEW | |||
| 26th Dec 1898 | 23 | W |
11 | Tyldesley | L | H | 9 | 5 | VIEW | |||
| 30th Dec 1898 | -- | W |
12 | Hull Kingston Rovers * | Fr | A | 8 | 3 | 1 | VIEW | ||
| 2nd Jan 1899 | 24 | D |
11 | Runcorn | L | H | 0 | 0 | VIEW | |||
| 7th Jan 1899 | 25 | D |
11 | Salford | L | H | 8 | 8 | VIEW | |||
| 14th Jan 1899 | 26 | W |
5 | Swinton | L | H | 6 | 5 | 1 | VIEW | ||
| 21st Jan 1899 | -- | W |
12 | Birkenhead* | Fr | A | 9 | 0 | VIEW | |||
| 28th Jan 1899 | 27 | L |
11 | Oldham | L | A | 0 | 16 | VIEW | |||
| 11th Feb 1899 | 28 | W |
11 | Tyldesley | L | A | 6 | 3 | VIEW | |||
| 4th Mar 1899 | 29 | W |
13 | Stockport | L | A | 13 | 3 | VIEW | |||
| 11th Mar 1899 | 30 | L |
13 | Rochdale Hornets | L | A | 0 | 16 | VIEW | |||
| 22nd Mar 1899 | -- | W |
3 | Kendal * | Fr | A | 5 | 3 | VIEW | |||
| 1st Apr 1899 | 31 | L |
9 | Salford | CC3 | A | 0 | 16 | VIEW | |||
| 8th Apr 1899 | 32 | W |
5 | Morecambe | L | H | 7 | 2 | VIEW | |||
| 15th Apr 1899 | 33 | L |
10 | Runcorn | L | A | 8 | 11 | VIEW | |||
| 20th Apr 1899 | 34 | W |
10 | Stockport | L | H | 13 | 10 | 1 | VIEW |
| *Unofficial Match. **Non Playing Sub. |
| WINS : 20 | LOSSES : 21 | DRAWS : 4 |
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