rugby league player rugby union player
International honours County honours Championship final appearances He played in Bradford"s 5-0 victory over Salford in the Championship tiebreaker during the 1903-1904 season at Thrum Hall, Halifax. Challenge Cup final appearances He played in Bradford"s 5-0 victory over Salford in the 1906 Challenge Cup final during the 1905-1906 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds.
George Marsden won caps for England (RU) while at Morley R.F.C. in the 1900 Home Nations Championship against Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, and won a cap for England (RL) while at Bradford in 1905 against Other Nationalities. Marsden won 11-caps for Yorkshire (RU) while at Morley R.F.C. up to and including 1900, and won cap(s) for Yorkshire (RL) while at Bradford between 1900 and 1906. When Bradford converted from the rugby union code to the rugby league code on 29 August 1895, George Marsden would have been 14 years of age. Consequently, he was too young to have been a rugby union football player for Bradford, and he won his England (RU) caps during 1900 at Morley R.F.C., changing club and code to Bradford and rugby league in 1900.
Despite his previous involvement in rugby league, and the animosity between rugby union and rugby league, George Marsden was one of the founding members of the rugby union club Fylde Rugby Club in 1919.
