SKIPTON have appointed former Ermysted's Grammar School teacher David Stephens as director of rugby.
Stephens has considerable playing and coaching experience at the top level across both rugby codes and the club hope his arrival can kick start a move up the Yorkshire leagues.
He played rugby league for Wigan and rugby union for Wakefield during the 1960s before coaching league at school level for Yorkshire and Great Britain in the 1970s.
After first playing league as a youngster in his home town of Castleford, Stephens switched to union at school. Three seasons at Wakefield in the early 1960s, when the club was a leading force in the north, was followed by a switch to the professional code when he joined Wigan.
There he won a Lancashire Cup medal and was part of the side that lost to St Helens at Wembley in the Challenge Cup final of 1966.
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