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English team; but after a heavy away defeat by Scotland in the next match, Cornish was back in favour for the Irish encounter at the
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Cornish may have been selected for further international games, but in August 1899 he switched rugby codes joining Hull rugby league team, preventing his return to the union code of rugby.
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