Making their debuts today at home to York in 1912, were our duo of Banks, Lucius and Hebert.
Lucius was on the wing and Herbert in the forwards as Hunslet cruised to a 28-7 win with Lucius scoring a try from a pass by Billy Batten. The paper noted that Lucius was “obviously strange in his new surroundings”.
An important signing today in 1962 was that of Jeffrey Murray Stevenson, brought to Hunslet from York for £6,000 by new coach Fred Ward as his “on field general”. Jeff had had a stellar representative career whilst playing for Leeds, racking up 42 caps, largely for Great Britain and Yorkshire, between 1955 and 1961, including the 1957 World Cup. The two played together at York, Fred knowing well his qualities which paid off almost immediately as Hunslet lifted the Yorkshire Cup later that year.
Jeff hung up his boots at the start of 1964/65 to be replaced by Alan Marchant, so missing out on Wembley that season, but he had played an important part in moulding the team that won through to the twin towers.
In 1949, Tommy Potter signed on the dotted line for Hunslet for £200 from Hunslet Supporters.
A wingman, Tommy recorded 50 tries in 80 appearances for the Parksiders before moving to Dewsbury in 1956/57.
The selectors favoured a couple of Hunslet players on this day. In 1894 Owen Walsh was on the train to Birkenhead to help Yorkshire to a 10-6 win over Cheshire and in 1932 Les White was at hooker for Wales against England at Salford, the match resulting in a 19-2 win for England.
The Yorkshire Post reported that the teams were selected by the Tour Sub-Committee and, although a stand-alone international, it was considered the first Tour Trial for the upcoming tour down under.
In 1908 we made our only visit to the short lived Merthyr Tydfil club in South Wales and left defeated 9-13
