Colonial Cup (rugby league)

Colonial Cup
Sport	Rugby league football
Instituted	2010
Number of teams	2
Region	International (RLIF)
Related competition	Atlantic Cup

The Colonial Cup is an international rugby league football challenge match played between the United States national rugby league team and the Canada Wolverines. The inaugural match was played in September, 2010 at the Richardson Memorial Stadium at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The match was won by the USA Tomahawks 22-16.

In 2011, the Colonial Cup was expanded to a 'home and away' series. Each team won their home fixture; the USA won the first of the two games 18-2 with Canada securing their first win in the second match with an 18-16 win. USA won the series with an overall aggregate score of 34-20. In 2012, the Cup was again contested over 2 games, with the USA Tomahawks winning both games. In 2013, the series has been expanded to a best 2 of 3 series. In 2014, Canada won their first ever Colonial Cup trophy.

Results

Note that in a year where each team wins an even number of games, the winner of the cup is decided by aggregate scores.

Year	Winner of Cup	Wins	Losses	Drawn
2010	United States	1	0	0
2011	United States	1	1	0
2012	United States	2	0	0
2013	United States	3	1	0
2014	Canada	1	0	0
2015	Canada	2	1	0

2013 Colonial Cup

Game 1

Saturday, 6 July 19:00 (local time)

Canada	36 – 20	United States
Tries: Tony Felix (2) Joe Bangay Christian Miller Geoff Bylund Robin Legault Adam Timler Goals: Steve Piatek (4/7)	Report, Video	Tries: Ben Sadgrove Craig Priestly Mike Schacter Taylor Welch Goals: Craig Priestly (2/4)

Lamport Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 7,168 Referee/s: Paul Byrne Man of the Match: Tony Felix

Game 2

Saturday, 24 August 18:00 (local time)

United States	44 – 16	Canada
Tries: Val Notoa 2' c M. Schachter 14' c Kristian Freed 26' c Mark Offerdahl 33' m Luke Collins 48' c Craig Priestly 53' c Matt Walsh 73' c Gareth Gibbs 78' m Goals: Craig Priestly (6/8) 3', 15', 28', 49', 54', 74'	Report	Tries: Don Mackinlay 10' c Graham Dobbs 44' m Chris Diamond 58' c Goals: Robin Legault (2/3) 11', 59'

Garthwaite Stadium, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Attendance: 175 Referee/s: Robin Peers Man of the Match: Kristian Freed

Game 3

Saturday, 7 September 19:00 (local time)

Canada	20 – 28	United States
Tries: Louis Robinson Ben Fleming Christian Miller Robin Legault Goals: Robin Legault (2/4)	Report Video	Tries: Louis Tuilo (2) Brent Shorten (2) Casey Clarke Mike Schacter Goals: Craig Priestly (4/6)

Lamport Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 3,128 Referee/s: ? Man of the Match: Taylor Welch

Game 4

Saturday, 28 September 19:00 (local time)

Canada	22 – 30	United States
Tries: Jaime Beeton Christian Miller Eric Moyer Brent King Goals: Jaime Beeton (3/5)	Report Video	Tries: Gabriel Farley Brent Shorten (3) Gareth Gibbs Mike Schacter Goals: Craig Priestly (3/6)

Lamport Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 5,176 Referee/s: Paul Byrne Man of the Match: Taylor Welch

2014 Colonial Cup

Lone Fixture

Sunday, 10 August 19:00 (local time)

Canada	52 – 14	United States
Tries: Billy Skidgmore Jonathan Cregg (2) Enoch Wamalwa (2) Tom Clancy Denny McCarthy Matt Wyles Brett King Goals: Steve Piatek (8/9)	Report	Tries: Arber Corbaj Matt Walsh CJ Catalano Goals: Matt Walsh (1/3)

Lamport Stadium, Toronto Attendance: 7,356 Referee/s: Paul Byrne Man of the Match: Steve Piatek

2015 Colonial Cup

Game 1

Sunday, 20 September 13:00 (local time)

United States	28 – 36	Canada
Tries: Taylor Alley (2) Casey Clark Ryan Burroughs Kenny Britt Goals: Matt Walsh (4/5)	Report	Tries: Alan Lafferty Christian Miller Jonathan Cregg Trent Bourke Enoch Wamalwa Antoine Blanc Goals: Steve Piatek (6/6)

*A. A. Garthwaite Stadium, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Referee/s: Vince Lawson

(*Was initially set to be held at Canada's Lamport Stadium in Toronto on the 19th of September)

FB 1 Kenny Britt RW 2 Rodrigus Ceasar RC 3 Ryan Burroughs LC 4 Taylor Alley LW 5 David Aguilar SO 6 Rich Henson SH 7 Matt Walsh PR 8 Andrew Kneisly HK 9 Gareth Walker PR 10 Marcos Flegmann SR 11 Jonathon Purnell SR 12 Casey Clark LF 13 Kevin Wiggins Substitutions: IC 14 Nick Newlin IC 15 Terrance Williams IC 16 Curtis Goddard IC 17 Abe Cohen Coach: Peter Illfield

FB 1 Robin Legault RW 2 Trent Bourke RC 3 Jonathan Cregg LC 4 Christian Miller LW 5 Billy Gemmell SO 6 Matt Wyles SH 7 Steve Piatek PR 8 Jason Locke HK 9 Alan Lafferty PR 10 Antoine Blanc SR 11 Denny McCarthy SR 12 Erick Alvarado LF 13 Max Smillie Substitutions: IC 14 Eddie Billborough IC 15 Joey Murphy IC 16 JT Rowbotham IC 17 Enoch Wamalwa Coach: Jamie Lester

Game 2

Sunday, 18 October 15:00 (local time)

United States	28 – 34	Canada
Tries: Roman Lowery (3) Ryan Burroughs (2) Goals: Mike Timpano (4/6)	Report	Tries: Eddie Billborough (3) Steve Piatek Matt Wyles Enoch Wamalwa Goals: Steve Piatek (6/6)

A. A. Garthwaite Stadium, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

FB 1 Ryan Burrows RW 2 Jared Frymoyer RC 3 Taylor Alley LC 4 Luke Barron LW 5 Mike Timpano SO 6 Rich Henson SH 7 Shain Singleton PR 8 Andrew Kneisley HK 9 Gareth Walker PR 10 Kevin Wiggins SR 11 Abe Cohen SR 12 Casey Clark LF 13 Jon Purnell Substitutions: IC 14 Terrance Williams IC 15 Roman Lowery IC 16 Bart Longchamp IC 17 Zack Reichenbach Coach: Peter Illfield

FB 1 Robin Legault RW 2 Tony Felix RC 3 Jonathan Cregg LC 4 Eddie Billborough LW 5 Billy Gemmell SO 6 Matt Wyles SH 7 Steve Piatek PR 8 Enoch Wamalwa HK 9 Alan Lafferty PR 10 Antoine Blanc SR 11 Alex Boyd SR 12 Christian Miller LF 13 Jamie Kelly Substitutions: IC 14 Denny McCarthy IC 15 Eric Moyer IC 16 JT Rowbotham IC 17 Lawrence Ross Coach: Jamie Lester

Game 3

12 December 2015

United States	34 – 24	Canada
Try: Alley (2) 2', 53' Howden (2) '9, '44 D. Howard (3) 36', 58', 79' Burroughs 63' Goal: Howden (1/4)	Report	Try: Kelly 18' Ryley Jacks (3) 32', 40', 66' Goal: Piatek (4/4)

Hodges Stadium, Jacksonville Referee/s: Robert Hicks Man of the Match: Mark Offerdahl

FB 1 Corey Makelim  32' RW 23 File:United States colours.svg Taylor Howden RC 4 File:United States colours.svg Taylor Alley LC 3 Ryan Burroughs LW 5 Roman Lowery SO 6 Rich Henson SH 7 Matt Walsh PR 8 File:United States colours.svg Nick Newlin HK 2 Kristian Freed PR 9 Mark Offerdahl (c) SR 11 Daniel Howard SR 12 Casey Clark LF 21 Steve Howard Substitutes: IC 17 Jon Purnell IC 16 Sam Carson IC 15 Andrew Kneisly IC 14 Luke Barron Coach: Brian McDermott

FB 1 Robin Legault RW 2 Billy Gemmell RC 3 Jonathan Cregg LC 4 Rick Schouten LW 5 Adam Timler SO 6 Ryley Jacks SH 7 Steve Piatek PR 8 Tom Dempsey HK 9 Rhys Jacks PR 10 Louis Robinson SR 11 Christian Miller SR 12 Steve Bouchard LF 13 Jamie Kelly Substitutes: IC 14 Matt Wyles IC 15 Enoch Wamalwa IC 16 Daniel Blasco-Morris IC 17 Alex Boyd Coach: Aaron Zimmerle

(*Also played as part of 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifying)

See also

• Pacific Rugby League International
• Anzac Test
• Four Nations
• European Cup
• Rugby League World Cup