1913 and the second Lazenby Cup match, (the first at Parkside), saw a bad tempered game with constant infringement of the rules. Mr Dickinson, the referee, finally lost patience and dismissed Davies, Ward and Wester of Leeds and Billy Jukes and Jack Smales of Hunslet. Hunslet won the match 13-8 and the one good thing to come out of it was that Junior football in Leeds benefitted from the gate, £149.
In 1933, stand-off George Todd scored six tries at Parkside against Hull Kingston Rovers. This was a new record for the club at the time.
March was a busy time in the Cups and three ties were played on the 15th.
Back in the Union days in 1890 and having beaten Dudley Hill and Ossett in the Yorkshire Cup, Hunslet were drawn away at Castleford. This was the original Castleford club (the current club was formed in the 1920s) and they played at Lock Lane, the scene of our recent cup tie. It was reported that it was probably Castleford’s largest ever crowd with between 12 and 15,000 in the ground. Hunslet came through by 2 goals to 1.
In 1902, Hunslet started their Challenge Cup run with a tie against juniors Wath Brow Hornets at Parkside, winning easily 37-0.
The years after WW1 were lean times for Hunslet but victories over Salford and Swinton had seen them in the quarter-finals of the 1924 Challenge Cup but a match against Wigan at Parkside was their last in this years competition, the eventual cup winners winning 13-8.
It was common practise in WW2 for clubs to include guest players in their teams and Dewsbury had international Jim Sullivan at full-back today in 1941 at Crown Flatt for today’s 1st round Yorkshire cup tie. They ran out comfortable winners 17-5.
It was the end of the 1898/99 league season today, Hunslet finishing 5th out of 16 with 16 wins and 5 draws from their 30 matches. After the upcoming cup ties Billy Hannah would be the leading try scorer with 18 and Albert Goldthorpe had 67 goals. Add his 8 tries and he was the leading points scorer with 158.
