In the latest edition of our look back through the T&A picture archives, here are five rugby teams from days gone by.
Pictured above, the Shawcross boys selected to play against Lancashire. Photographed during a special training session, April 1961. Left to right: b Scott, T Bedford, B Taylor, S Kelly, C Page, B Hardcastle, T Grayson, A Edwards, B walker and M Womack.
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EAST WHARFEDALE PLAYERS 1957: Back: Greaves, lamb, Thomson, Muir, Furnell, Brown, Wood, Froggatt. Front: Crabtree, Colley, McCartney, Cash, Mattison, Milne, Wilson, Dobson.
YORKSHIRE RUGBY UNION SCHOOLBOY TRIAL TEAM 1959: Back: A Cumming, J H Birkett (Bradford), D R Emmett, R N H Crebbin, K D Poskett, W D Thomas (Whitcliffe Mount), J S Eadie, C R Wilkinson. Front: G R Habbershaw, S Reeder (Skipton), J M Archer (Keighley), R Dawson, J D Bowden, P Woodrow, J Braim.
VICTORIA RANGERS (BRADFORD) TEAM 1960: Back row, from left: M Oldfield, L Harrison, A Greensmith, P O’Brien, W Drake, T Mitchell, A Mundy. Front: A Grice, C Ebbage, W Sykes, B Mitchell (captain), G Morgan, D Croft.
STANNINGLEY RLFC 1964: Back: R Scaife, G Bussey, S Speight, L Harrison, J Cave, J Bell, R Swales, M Kenworthy. Front: H Brummitt, T Elliot, H Oddy (captain), L Thompson, P Ascough.
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