All Four Cups - Huddersfield

Huddersfield

The feat was next repeated by Huddersfield in the 1914-15 season by the Fartowners famous "Team of all the Talents". This was the culmination of a staggering period of dominance in the game, as they had already picked up two championships, the challenge cup, three Yorkshire Cups and three Yorkshire league titles in the preceding five seasons.

They were captained by Harold Wagstaff, immortalised as the "Prince of Centres", and included several foreign internationals. They easily defeated Leeds 35-2 in the Championship final, and managed an even greater margin of victory in the Challenge Cup, crushing St Helens 37-3 at Oldham.

The season saw Huddersfield's wing-three-quarter Albert Rosenfeld score an impressive 56 tries. However this figure paled into insignificance when it is remembered that Rosenfeld, a Jewish Australian who had come over to Britain with the 1908 Kangaroos, had scored 80 tries the previous season. This record has never yet been beaten.

The team of all the Talents could well have gone on to even greater exploits, however sadly the First World War intervened, and the team broke up. The Huddersfield club was unable to field a team, reforming only after the war ended.

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