The following extract is from the First 125 years Liverpool Football Club Rugby Union 1857–1982 by I R A Daglish.
The game was arranged for Saturday 19 December 1857 on the Liverpool Cricket Ground at Edgehill.
Fifty players arrived and they decided to play Rugby versus the World.
Liverpool club was founded there and then.Dick Sykes spent 18 months in Heidelberg, Paris and Geneva.
He continued to live in England, but made annual trips to the States where he founded and named five North Dakota towns, He introduced rugby football to colleges and universities in the west of America and also introduced golf links to the northwest In 1904, at the age of 65 he married Fanny Elizabeth Walton of Broughton, Salford, and sailed for the United States on their wedding day to make their future home, settling at Montecito, California.