Name Harold Buck | Role Rugby player | |
Harold Buck was a British rugby league footballer. A winger, in November 1921, Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 player when transferred from Hunslet to Leeds, (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £139,100 in 2013). Buck made his début for Leeds against Wigan at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 5 November 1921, he went on to play 99-matches for Leeds scoring 72-tries and 15-conversions, for 246-points. Buck played right wing, i.e. number 2, and scored a try in Leeds' 28-3 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1923 Challenge Cup Final during the 1922-23 season at Belle Vue, Wakefield, the only occasion the Challenge Cup final has ever been staged at Belle Vue. The Leeds backline in the early 1920s was known as the Busy Bs, as it included; Jim Bacon, A. Binks, Billy Bowen, Joe Brittain, and Harold Buck.