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Wath Rugby – Barnsley 0 Old Wathonians 11

March 1967

South Yorkshire Times March 11 1967

Barnsley 0                           Old Wathonians 11

Barnsley forwards were on top during the first quarter, but Wath gradually took command thereafter did everything but score during a rather scrappy first half.

A Russell had a drop goal disallowed. A Horner crossed Barnsley’s line only to be brought back for a foward pass, and B Lidster just failed to gather a bouncing ball with the line at his mercy.

All this pressure was bound to bring Wath scores and in the second of it did. Apart from full back C Sidebottom, who had a sound game throughout, Wath’s stars were now the Bentley brothers.

First G Bentley kicked a penalty and then he made all the running for, and converted a try scored by younger brother R Bentley. To round off the scoring R Bentley, improving with every game, scored a grand individual try.