Test Matches - Australia - England 1908-09

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Tour: Played 45; Won 17; Lost 22; Drew 6; For 513; Against 484

Tests: Lost series 2-0 (1 draw)

Total attendance 250,777.

Manager: James Giltinan.
Captain, Vice-Captain: Dinny Lutge, Dally Messenger.
Squad: (35) Jim Abercrombie, Tom Anderson, Ernest Anlezark, Bill Bailey, Mick Bolewski, Alex Burdon, Arthur Butler, Billy Cann, Frank Cheadle, Albert Conlon, Tedda Courtney, Jim Davis, Sid Deane, Jim Devereux, Alf Dobbs, Dan Frawley, Bob Graves, Arthur Halloway, Bill Hardcastle, Charles Hedley, Bill Heidke, Arthur Hennessy, Lou Jones, Dinny Lutge, Tom McCabe, Dally Messenger, Peter Moir, Andy Morton, Bill Noble, Larry O'Malley, Sandy Pearce, Albert Rosenfeld, Johnny Rosewall, Pat Walsh. Jack Fihelly toured but did not play.

	  Mid-Rhondda               W 20-6    7,500  Tonypandy
          Bradford Northern         W 12-11   4,000  Bradford
          Rochdale Hornets          W  5-0    3,000  Rochdale
          York                      D  5-5    3,000  York
          Salford                   D  9-9    6,100  Salford
          Runcorn                   W  9-7    3,000  Runcorn
          Cumberland League         W 52-10   4,000  Whitehaven
          Leigh                     L 11-14   6,000  Leigh
          Dewsbury                  L  0-15   2,000  Dewsbury
          Yorkshire                 W 24-11   3,500  Hull
          Hunslet                   W 12-11   6,000  Hunslet
          Aberdare                  W 37-10   5,000  Aberdare
          Warrington                L  3-10   5,000  Warrington
          Northern League           W 10-9    6,000  Everton
          Hull Kingston Rovers      L 16-21   7,000  Hull
          Lancashire                W 20-6    4,000  Wigan
          Barrow                    W 21-5    6,500  Barrow
          Halifax                   L  8-12   6,000  Halifax
          Swinton                   W 10-9    1,500  Swinton
12.12.08  ENGLAND                   D 22-22   2,000  QPR, London
          Treherbert                W  6-3    4,000  Treherbert
          Wakefield Trinity         L 13-20   3,000  Wakefield
          Leeds                     W 14-10  12,000  Leeds
          Oldham                    L  5-11  12,000  Oldham
 2. 1.09  England                   L  9-14   7,000  Huddersfield
          Widnes                    W 13-2    1,000  Widnes
          Wigan (friendly)          L  7-10   4,000  Wigan
          Batley                    L  5-12   2,000  Batley
          Welsh League              L 13-14   6,000  Merthyr Tidfil
          Ebbw Vale                 W  9-8    5,000  Ebbw Vale
          Wigan                     L  8-16   8,000  Wigan
23. 1.09  ENGLAND                   L  5-15  22,000  Newcastle
          Keighley                  D  8-8    1,000  Keighley
          Hull                      L  8-9   10,000  Hull
 3. 2.09  England                   D 17-17   3,000  Glasgow
          Cumberland                L  2-11   2,000  Carlisle
          Broughton Rovers          L 12-14  12,000  Broughton
          St Helens                 L  0-9    1,500  St Helens
          Warrington                D  8-8    7,000  Warrington
10. 2.09  ENGLAND                   L  5-6    9,000  Birmingham
          Huddersfield              L  3-5    9,677  Huddersfield
          Barrow                    L  3-11   6,000  Barrow
          Merthyr Tydfil            L 13-15   4,000  Merthyr Tydfil
 3. 3.09  England                   L  7-14   4,500  Everton
          Lancashire                L 14-19   4,000  Wigan
          Widnes                    W 55-3    1,200  Southport