The year comes to a close today with a very uneventful day, which gives a chance to summarise what our great club has contributed to the Rugby League and Rugby Union games.
Hunslet C & F C, Hunslet C F & A C, New Hunslet, Hunslet RLFC, Hunslet Hawks.
Played at Woodhouse Hill, Parkside, Elland Road Greyhound Stadium, Mount Pleasant Batley, Elland Road Stadium / Leeds City Stadium, MacLaren Field, Bramley and South Leeds Stadium.
Rugby Union – 405 Yorkshire League / Cup and Ordinary matches (245 won, 41 drawn). Yorkshire Cup winners 1891/92.
Northern Union / Rugby League – 4463 Northern Union / Rugby League matches (2197 won , 142 drawn) + 110 World War One matches (41 won, 10 drawn).
Rugby League Club honours.
1899 Yorkshire League Leaders and Championship Play-off final winners. Challenge Cup runners-up.
1905 first winners of Northern Union Yorkshire Cup.
1907/08 All Four Cups winners (Yorkshire Cup, Challenge Cup, Yorkshire League and Championship).
1908 Yorkshire Cup runners-up.
1931/32 Yorkshire Cup runners-up and Yorkshire League winners.
1934 Challenge Cup winners.
1938 League Leaders and Championship winners
1944 Yorkshire Cup runners-up.
1956 Yorkshire Cup runners-up.
1959 Yorkshire League runners-up and Championship runners-up.
1962/63 Yorkshire Cup winners and Division Two champions.
1965 Challenge Cup and Yorkshire Cup runners-up.
1977 Promoted to Division One.
1979 Promoted to Division One.
1984 Promoted to Championship.
1986/87 League leaders and premiership runners-up.
1997 Challenge Cup Plate runners-up and League leaders.
1999 Premiership Grand Final winners.
2010 Championship One league leaders.
2014 Championship One Grand Final winners.
2017 League One Shield winners.
2024 League One Play-off and Promotion Play-off winners.
Players
A total of 2092 known first team players.
Representative Players
13 Lions tourists
12 other Great Britain internationals
23 England internationals
12 Wales internationals
31 other internationals
71 Yorkshire representatives
12 other County representatives
40 miscellaneous representatives
We should all be grateful to those who made this happen, from Billy Gilston and his colleagues in 1883 through to the present directors, all the players who have given us so many memories over the years, and to all the volunteers and supporters who have helped keep this great club going through the good and the bad times.
Finally a massive thank you to all who have helped over the years sharing their statistics, research and memories, especially Steve Calline without whose research this would never have happened. Any errors are down to me.
“We’ve swept the seas before, boys, and so we shall again”.
Copies of all the articles are available on the club website in the “News – On This Day” section including some which didn’t make it to Facebook.
All Hunslet’s Northern Union / Rugby League records are available at rugbyleaguerecords.online (Rugby League Record Keepers Club) with all match stats, players records and representative details.
