Timeline

1969-1970

Measured against the yardstick of their own high standards, Leeds enjoyed a slightly less successful season. Yet success is a relative term: for the majority of clubs, and for Leeds too, in their b....

1968-1969

A glass of Chateau Latour 707 or, perhaps, Chateau Beauregard 717, no, give me every time, the exquisite ‘Headingley 69?, a vintage which embodies the rich flavour of yet another wonderful season, ....

1967-1968

The barren years were truly over! The seeds of teamwork and fitness, honest endeavour and flair, had borne fruit yet again, as Mick Clark and all his squad garnered a Headingley harvest rich beyond....

1966-1967

League Leaders and Yorkshire League Championship! This was the dawn of an era of unprecedented success in ‘The Headingley Story’, surpassing even the glories, of the ‘Golden Thirties’. It was a sea....

1965-1966

An end-of-term report, in respect of 1965-66, could justifiably have read: “Making very good progress. Given reasonable luck and consistent effort, Leeds now have the potential to attain the highes....

1964-1965

It was back to a one-divisional competition, with two innovations: a championship play-off involving the top sixteen clubs, and the introduction of substitutes for injured players. Bare as the Head....

1963-1964

Leeds had not experienced a season like this in peace time since 1907. Hard as they tried, and do what they would, it seemed all too often that management and players alike were in the clutch of cr....

1962-1963

This was the season of the big freeze! Not a single game was played at Headingley between December 1st and April 3rd, a period of seventeen weeks, and Leeds finished their First Division progr....

1961-1962

The scalpel was poised! Seeking to arrest the cancer of ever-dwindling ‘gates’ the clubs had finally opted for exploratory surgery through the introduction of a two-divisional competition in 1962-6....

1960-1961

Thou shalt not covet! Leeds must plead guilty to breaking the Tenth Commandment, five times R.L. Championship runners-up, for sixty years they had coveted that one piece of silverware which had alw....