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RUGBY LEAGUE: Ray marks time as club clockwatcher

2007-08-13T18:29:16

CLOCKWATCHING is something generally not encouraged at work, but for Ray Myers it has become a labour of love.

RUGBY LEAGUE: On the ball with glut of clubs in town

2007-08-13T18:29:14

ROCHDALE produced more than 300 rugby clubs between 1870 and the 1920s, most of them before the turn of the century when association football was still new to the world.

FOOTBALL: Legend Reg holds place in record book and the heart

2007-08-13T18:29:20

RICHARD Partington caught up with the man Dale supporters voted their greatest ever ...

RUGBY LEAGUE: Cup kings of 1922

2007-08-13T18:29:16

HORNETS won the Challenge Cup Final - then the Northern Union Cup - for the first and only time in 1922 at Headingley on 6 May.

RUGBY LEAGUE: Shedding light on historic night match

2007-08-13T18:29:15

THE first rugby match to be played under floodlights saw Broughton meet Swinton at the Yew Street ground in Salford on 22 October 1878.

BOWLS: Breathing new life into Observer tournament

2007-08-13T18:29:11

THE sport of Crown Green Bowls was first recorded in the Observer in the 1850s.

Fashionable sports which fell by the wayside

2007-08-13T18:29:13

THE Rochdale Observer has provided readers with news on many and diverse sports events over the years.

RUGBY LEAGUE: Veteran duo made club a force to be reckoned with

2007-08-13T18:29:17

IAN Ogden covered Hornets for the Observer from 1965 to 1973, a period which yielded some fond memories...

CRICKET: Thorneycroft claimed first for Fieldhouse

2007-08-13T18:29:07

FIELDHOUSE, it is believed, were founded in 1850 and started life at a ground in Whitworth Road.

RUGBY UNION: Rochdale lad who played for Australia

2007-08-13T18:29:17

ROCHDALE and Littleborough (previously known as Old Rochdalians) have been the only two union teams in the immediate area.

Fun and games - 19th century style

2007-08-13T18:29:04

SPORTS reporting was non-existent in the early days of the Rochdale Observer, probably due to the fact there didn't seem to be much sport in the town.

ROLL OF HONOUR: Sportsmen and women who represented their country

2007-08-13T17:59:08

ROCHDALE has rarely hit the headlines in the world of sport, yet the town has produced countless athletes for teams at county, regional, national and international level.

Looking back at the strange and unusual

2007-08-13T18:29:12

THE Observer's pages have carried some unusual stories and covered many a strange sport down the years...

CRICKET: Centenary celebrations marked end of League

2007-08-13T18:29:08

THE Rochdale and District Cricket League, now but a memory, reached its centenary season in 1998 without teams and without cricket being played.

CRICKET: England Test call-up for Tommy

2007-08-13T18:29:08

TOMMY Greenhough made local history in 1959 when he became the first Rochdale-born player to appear for England in a Test match.