Timeline

1908-1909

Although this season could in no way be regarded as successful from a playing point of view, there was cause for great satisfaction with the results of an extensive team building campaign. The effo....

1907-1908

The playing fortunes of the club reached a disastrously low ebb during this campaign. There was no silver lining, and no rays of hope in either the league or the cup competitions.

There was....

1906-1907

At the Annual Meeting of the Northern Union on June 12th, another revolutionary step was taken with the decision to reduce the number of players in a team to thirteen. Further, with the object of m....

1905-1906

The ever growing popularity of Association Football and the serious financial plight of many Northern Union Clubs led to a great deal of close season activity on the part of the administrators.

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1904-1905

This was another successful year: the team gained fourth place in the First Division, there as a slight increase in the membership to 2,335, the average attendance was 9,022, and there was a profit....

1903-1904

Promotion into the First Division led, quite naturally, to greatly increased support, and the membership rose from 657 to 2,267. This was very encouraging to the management who were able to point a....

1902-1903

This was a critical season for the Leeds Club. The Northern Union had now decided in favour of having two divisions of eighteen clubs each, and there was a great deal of dissatisfaction amongst the....

1901-1902

At the Annual Meeting of the Northern Union a number of the leading Yorkshire and Lancashire clubs formed the Northern Rugby League: Batley, Bradford, Brighouse Rangers, Broughton Rangers, Halifax,....

1900-1901

This was almost a case of” as you were”, the playing record being identical with that of the previous season apart from the points scored” for” and” against”.

On this occasion, however, the....