A 15ct. gold and enamel Yorkshire County Cup rugby medal awarded to Tom Broadley, the obverse inscribed YORKSHIRE COUNTY (NORTHERN) FOOTBALL UNION, th
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A 15ct. gold and enamel Yorkshire County Cup rugby medal awarded to Tom Broadley, the obverse inscribed YORKSHIRE COUNTY (NORTHERN) FOOTBALL UNION, the reverse inscribed NORTHERN RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION, COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP, 1898, T BROADLEY, BRADFORD, FORWARD, later mounted in gold brooch & chain fitting Tom Broadley began his rugby in Union with Bingley and was capped for England six times between 1893 and 1896. He switched to League playing for Bradford. Broadley features in the celebrated painting of the Roses Game by W B Woollen, and sold in this lot is a Yorkshire Rugby Union Centenary 1869-1969 brochure which has the painting reproduced on the front cover (2)