Albert Goldthorpe
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Personal information
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| Full name | Albert Goldthorpe | |||||||||||||||||||||
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3 November 1871 Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
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| Died | 8 January 1943 (aged 71) Leeds, West Yorkshire |
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Playing information
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| Position | Stand-off, Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Albert Goldthorpe (born 3 November 1871 in Hunslet, West Riding of Yorkshire, died 8 January 1943) was an English rugby footballer from the period around 1895's schism in English rugby, which led to the formation of rugby league football around the turn of the century.
One of five brothers (four of whom at one period played together in the same Hunslet team), Goldthorpe made his first team debut with Hunslet, at fullback, as a 16-year-old in October, 1888. He went on to become one of the best known figures in English rugby, both before and after the split, and he was one of the finest individual talents in the game at the time of the Northern Union's formation in 1895. He was also a successful cricketer.
Goldthorpe was still playing for Hunslet twenty years after his debut, when in the 1907-08 season he led the club to unprecedented success, winning all four cups (the Challenge Cup, the Championship, the Yorkshire Cup and the Yorkshire League). Hunslet were the first team to achieve that feat.
Albert Goldthorpe played Stand-off/Five-eighth in Hunslet's 14-0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1908 Challenge Cup Final during the 1907–08 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 25 April 1908, in front of a crowd of 18,000.
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