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Newlyn RFC was a rugby football club based in Newlyn Cornwall UK. The club was formed in 1894 (or 1895) by a young curate of St Peter’s Church the Rev. Fred Peel Yates. Before the founding of the club it was said that the young men of the village played a form of rugby on St Goulders Common and on moonlit nights a ball covered in chalk was used to make it easier to see.