Name Harry Slater | Role Rugby Player | |
Harry Slater (born circa-1883) was a rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in 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, or scrum-half/halfback, i.e. number 6, or 7.
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County honours
Harry Slater won cap(s) for Yorkshire while at Wakefield Trinity.
Challenge Cup Final appearances
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.
Notable tour matches
Harry Slater 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.
Club career
Harry Slater made his début for Wakefield Trinity during September 1904, he appears to have scored no drop-goals (or field-goals as they are currently known in Australasia), but prior to the 1974–75 season all goals, whether; conversions, penalties, or drop-goals, scored 2-points, consequently prior to this date drop-goals were often not explicitly documented, therefore '0' drop-goals may indicate drop-goals not recorded, rather than no drop-goals scored. In addition, prior to the 1949–50 season, the archaic field-goal was also still a valid means of scoring points.