List of Oldham R.L.F.C. players

Oldham R.L.F.C. (known as the Oldham Bears from 1996's Super League I to 1997's Super League II, and nicknamed the Roughyeds) is an English rugby league club who have had numerous notable players (1,361 (excludes pre-1895 season Rugby Football Union players) as of 31 October 2018) throughout their history, each player of the rugby league era who has played (and so excludes non-playing substitutes) in a competitive first-class match (including those matches that were subsequently abandoned, expunged or re-played, but excluding friendlies) is included.

List

 * ^¹ = Played For Oldham (Bears) During More Than One Period
 * ^² = drop-goals are currently worth 1-point, but from the 1897–98 season to prior to the 1973-74 season all goals, whether; conversions, penalties, or drop-goals, scored two points, consequently during this time drop-goals were often not explicitly documented, and "0²"indicates that drop-goals may not have been recorded, rather than no drop-goals scored. In addition, prior to the 1949–50 season, the Field-goal was also still a valid means of scoring points
 * ^³ = During the first two seasons of the Northern Union (now known as the Rugby Football League), i.e. the 1895–96 season and 1896–97 season, conversions were worth 2-points, penalty goals 3-points and drop goals 4-points.
 * ¢ = player has (potential) links to other rugby league clubs on Wikipedia
 * BBC = BBC2 Floodlit Trophy
 * CC = Challenge Cup
 * CF = Championship Final
 * CM = Captain Morgan Trophy
 * LC = Lancashire County Cup
 * LL = Lancashire League
 * RT = League Cup, i.e. Player's № 6, John Player (Special), Regal Trophy

Hall of Fame
There are currently 19 players included in the club's Hall of Fame:

Fred Ashworth • Alan Davies • Mike Elliott • John Etty • Joe Ferguson • Terry Flanagan • Bernard Ganley • Alex Givvons • Andrew Goodway • Herman Hilton • Robert Irving • Arthur Lees • Sid Little • Martin Murphy • Harry Ogden • Jack Read • Frank Stirrup • Kevin Taylor • Derek Turner

Notable former players
These players have either; received a Testimonial match, are "Hall of Fame" inductees, played during Oldham Bears' two Super League seasons, were international representatives before, or after, their time at Oldham, or are notable outside of rugby league.


 * Les Anthony
 * Darren Abram
 * Raymond "Ray" Ashton 1984 Great Britain Tourist
 * Keith Atkinson (Testimonial match 1993)
 * Adrian Belle
 * Ben Beynon circa-1920s
 * David Bradbury
 * Gary Burns
 * Joseph "Joe" Collins
 * John Clarke circa-1996/97
 * James "Jimmy" Cowan
 * Martin Crompton
 * Ryan Lawton (Loose forward)
 * Paul Crook
 * Paul Davidson circa-1996-97
 * Paul Deacon
 * Tom Helm 1910 Great Britain Tourist
 * Joe Faimalo circa-1996/97
 * Reg Farrar
 * Vince Fawcett
 * Frank Foster
 * Steve Gartland
 * Ian Gildart
 * Brett Goldspink circa-1996/97
 * Luke Goodwin circa-1996/97
 * Danny Guest
 * Shayne McMenemy
 * Reece Guy
 * Howard Hill
 * Viv Huzzey
 * Shaun Irwin
 * David Jones circa-1996-97
 * Jack 'Bedwellty' Jones
 * Jack Keith (Testimonial match 1960)
 * Alan Kellett
 * Phil Larder (Testimonial match 1979)
 * Peaufai "Afi" Leuila circa-1996-97
 * Gary Lord
 * Francis Maloney circa-1996-97
 * Chris McKinney
 * Matt Munro
 * Robert Myler
 * Mike Neal
 * Paul Norman
 * John 'Ben' Andrew
 * Andrew Patmore
 * John A. Power circa-1993-95
 * Malcolm Price
 * Sean Quinlan
 * Scott Ranson
 * Craig Richards
 * Ian Russell
 * Ian Sherratt
 * George William Smith 1908–1916
 * Peter Smith
 * Jack Stephens captain 1929-30/1934-35 P186 T79 G37 P311
 * David Stephenson
 * Paul Stevens
 * Jason Temu
 * Paul Topping circa-1996/97
 * Don Vines