| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Horsfall | |||||
| Died | June 2007 | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1945–1955 | Leeds | 77 | 7 | 21 | ||
| 1955–1958 | Castleford | 53 | 3 | 9 | ||
| Total | 130 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Source: leedsrugby.dnsupdate.co.uk | ||||||
Alan Horsfall was a professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s who at club level played for Leeds, and Castleford playing at Prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.[1][2]
Alan Horsfall's début came in the 17-32 defeat to Wigan at Headingley on 24 November 1945, he was transferred to Castleford on 10 January 1955 in part-exchange for Joseph "Joe" Anderson, and was the bag man for the Leeds teams of the 1970s, and early 1980s.