Harold Buck
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| Full name | Harold Buck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 October 1892 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harold Buck was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played at club level for Hunslet and Leeds, as a wing.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Buck started his rugby league career with Hunslet, making his debut in November 1912.[2]
In November 1921, Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 player when he transferred from Hunslet to Leeds,[3] Buck made his début for Leeds against Wigan at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 5 November 1921, he went on to play 99 matches for Leeds, scoring 72 tries and 15 goals, for 246 points.[4] Buck played on the wing and scored a try in Leeds' 28–3 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1922–23 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.[5] The Leeds backline in the early 1920s was known as the Busy Bs, as it included; Jim Bacon, Arthur Binks, Billy Bowen, Joe Brittain, and Harold Buck.[6][7][8]
In 1924, Buck made a replacement appearance in the Great Britain trial match in advance of the 1924 Great Britain Lions tour, but Buck was ultimately not selected for the tour.[8]
After a brief spell with Bradford Northern,[9] Buck returned to Hunslet in January 1925.[10]
Outside rugby league
[edit | edit source]Buck was the landlord, and he and his wife, Florrie (née Fox), ran The Coburg Tavern at the junction of Woodhouse Lane and Claypit Lane, in Leeds.[11]
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