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Harry Slater (rugby league)

Harry Slater
Personal information
Full name Harry Slater
Born circa-1883
Playing information
Rugby union
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1904–≤04 Wakefield Balne Lane RFC
Rugby league
Position Stand-off
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1904–13 Wakefield Trinity 182 62 12 0 210
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Yorkshire
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org

Harry Slater (born circa-1883) was a rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, and 1910s playing club level rugby union (RU) for Wakefield Balne Lane RFC (the team was runner-up in rugby union's Yorkshire Cup in both 1905 (against Harrogate RUFC) and 1906 (against Castleford RUFC), and playing representative rugby league (RL) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Captain) (Heritage № 143), as a Stand-off/Five-eighth, i.e. number 6.

Harry Slater won cap(s) for Yorkshire while at Wakefield Trinity.

Harry Slater played Stand-off/Five-eighth, and was Captain in Wakefield Trinity's 17−0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1909 Challenge Cup Final during the 1908–09 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Tuesday 20 April 1909, in front of a crowd of 23,587.

William Simpson played Scrum-half/Halfback in Wakefield Trinity's 20-13 victory over Australia in the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain match at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 19 December 1908.


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