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1895–96 County Championship
1895–96 County Championship
Countries	England
Champions	Yorkshire (7th title)
Runners-up	Surrey
	← 1894–95 1896–97 →

The 1895–96 Rugby Union County Championship was the eighth edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at that time.^[1] The competition was reorganised with a reduction of groups from four to three, and the winners of the south-east and south-west groups competing in a play-off for the right to play the northern group winners in the final. This was the third format of the competition.^[2]

Yorkshire won the competition for the seventh time defeating Surrey in the final.^[3]^[4]

Group stage

Northern group

Northern group	P	W	D	L	Pts
Yorkshire	6	6	0	0	12
Lancashire	6	5	0	1	10
Cumberland	6	3	1	2	7
Durham	6	3	1	2	7
Northumberland	6	2	0	4	4
Westmorland	6	1	0	5	2
Cheshire	6	0	0	6	0

16 November 1895

Lancashire	7–5	Cumberland

16 November 1895

Yorkshire	11–0	Northumberland

^[5]

South-eastern group

South-eastern group	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Surrey	4	3	1	0	46	12	7
Midland Counties	4	2	1	1	40	22	5
Kent	3	1	0	2	14	36	2
Middlesex	3	0	0	3	13	43	0

South-western group

South-western group	P	W	L	F	A	Pts
Devon	3	3	0	43	8	6
Somerset	3	2	1	28	6	4
Gloucestershire	3	1	2	18	41	2
Cornwall	3	0	3	3	37	0

16 November 1895

Devon	22–3	Cornwall
		Pen: Salter

Plymouth

30 November 1895

Devon	3 goals, 1 try – 1 goal	Gloucestershire

^[6]

30 November 1895

Somerset	5–0	Cornwall

Wellington

14 December 1895

Cornwall	0–10	Gloucestershire

Falmouth

^[2]

Southern Play Off match

Date	Venue	Team One	Team Two	Score
30 Jan	Richmond	Surrey	Devon	16-0^[7]^[8]

Final

20 February 1896

Surrey	4–16	Yorkshire
Drop: Ashford		Try: Barron, Mosley, Murgatroyd, Couley Con: Duke (2)

Athletic Ground, Richmond
Referee: A J Davies (Glamorgan)


	K B Alexander	Guy's Hospital
	Clifford Wells	Harlequins
	H N Clarke	Harlequins & Guy's Hospital
	William Henry Thorman	Richmond
	H T Wallis	Cambridge University & Blackheath
	Cyril Wells	Harlequins
	J H Curtis	RIE College
	S B Peech (capt)	Harlequins
	William Ashford	Richmond
	H W Dudgeon	Richmond
	J H Kipling	Thornton Heath
	D H Helps	Croydon
	Frederick Lohden	Blackheath
	R W Hunt	Harlequins
	F H Todd	RIE College


	C E Dixon	Alverthorpe
	Ernest Fookes	Sowerby Bridge
	S Murritt	Kingston Rovers
	W Murgatroyd	Idle
	A Hambrecht	Bramley
	Harry Myers	Bramley
	George Mosley	Leeds Parish Church
	Tom Broadley (capt)	Bingley
	Jack Rhodes	Castleford
	Anthony Starks	Castleford
	Harry Speed	Castleford
	J W Ward	Castleford
	J Conley	Leeds Parish Church
	W Duke	Holbeck
	H E Barrington	Bingley

References

^ Jenkins, Vivian (1976) [1975]. Rothmans Rugby Yearbook. Brickfield Publications Ltd. pp. 130–131. ISBN 0362-00221-5.
^ ^a ^b Salmon, Tom (1983). The First Hundred Years. The Story of Rugby Football in Cornwall. Illogan: Cornwall RFU. pp. 113–5. ISBN 0 946664 01 3.
^ ""FOOTBALL." Daily News, 21 Feb. 1896". British Newspaper Archives.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ ""FOOTBALL." York Herald, 18 Feb. 1896, p. 7". British Newspaper Archives.
^ Impartial (21 November 1895). "Football". The Cornishman. No. 907. pp. 3 & 5.
^ Impartial (5 December 1895). "Football". The Cornishman. No. 909. p. 7.
^ ""THE RUGBY COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP." York Herald, 30 Jan. 1896, p. 9". British Library Newspaper Archives.
^ ""FOOTBALL." Standard, 31 Jan. 1896, p. 8". British Library Newspaper Archives.