After the hectic Christmas and New Year period, things tended to slow down in the first week of January.
Checking the records, we have only played 16 fixtures on the 2nd, the last being in 1965.
One match of note was 1922 when we played the Australasian tourists in their last match in Yorkshire at Parkside.
The Tourists won the game 19-10 on a very windy day.
The official attendance was 3,174 but it is reported that many hundreds watched the match for free from the railway embankment, due to an increase in the entrance fee and high unemployment at the time.
One notable event on the 2nd was the selection of Billy “Tubby” Brookes in the forwards for England against Other Nationalities at Park Avenue Bradford in 1905, giving Hunslet their first international representative. England won the game 26-11.
In 1909, England were again in action, against the Australians this time. Billy Batten (1 try) and John Willie Higson were in at Fartown. England won the match 14-9.
