| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Brian Briggs | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1952–1952 | York | |||||
| 1952–14/02/1958 | Huddersfield | |||||
| 14/02/1958–07/05/1960 | St. Helens | 83 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 34 |
| 07/05/1960–≥1962 | Wakefield Trinity | |||||
| Total | 83 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 34 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1954?–1962? | Yorkshire | ≥2 | ||||
| 1956–1956 | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954–1954 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Brian Briggs is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for York, Huddersfield, St. Helens, and Wakefield Trinity, playing at Second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.
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Brian Briggs was a stalwart for St. Helens playing over 80 matches mostly in the Second-row position. He was signed by St. Helens from Huddersfield on 14 February 1958, and made his St. Helens début against Oldham on 15 February 1958. He was a hard running and tough tackling Second-row who added great steel to the St. Helens pack at the time. In 83 matches for St. Helens Brian Briggs scored 4 tries, kicked 11 goals for a total points aggregate of 34 points. Brian Brigg's first try for St. Helens came at Hunslet as St. Helens cruised to a 33 points to two victory. Brian Briggs also had the pleasure of watching Tom van Vollenhoven notch four tries that particular day. On 14 April 1959 Brian Briggs scored a try and kicked two goals as St. Helens thumped Hull at Knowsley Road in front of 18,500 spectators. Brian Briggs managed to earn two caps for Yorkshire whilst at St. Helens. He partnered Dick Huddart in the Second-row in the resounding 1959 Championship Final 44 points to 22 thrashing of Hunslet. His final match for St. Helens was against Wigan in the Championship semi-final defeat on 7 May 1960. He transferred to the emerging great Wakefield Trinity side of the early 1960s.
Brian Briggs, won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in 1956 against France, and won a cap for Great Britain while at Huddersfield in 1954 against New Zealand.[1]
Brian Briggs played Left-Second-row, i.e. number 11, in Wakefield Trinity’s 12–6 victory over Huddersfield in the 1961–62 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on 12 May 1962.[2]
Brian Briggs played Left-Second-row, i.e. number 11, in Wakefield Trinity’s 16–10 victory over Huddersfield in the 1959–60 Yorkshire Cup final at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on 29 October 1960.[2]
Circa-1960s, Brian Briggs was the landlord of the Fox And Grapes Inn, 107 Stanley Road, Wakefield, Circa-1980s, He was the landlord of The Sun Inn, 719 Leeds Road, Lofthouse Gate, Wakefield. He was also the landlord of the British Oak Public House at the top of Stanley Hill Wakefield.