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| Full name | Henry Huth | |||||
| Nickname | Harry | |||||
| Born | 14 February 1856 Huddersfield, England |
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| Died | 31 December 1929 (aged 73)? Kensington, England |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Fullback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1879–≥1879 | Huddersfield | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1879 | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Source: scrum.com | ||||||
Henry "Harry" Huth (born 14 February 1856 in Huddersfield[1] — died December 1929 in Kensington[2]) was an English rugby union footballer of the 1870s who at representative level played for England, and at club level for Huddersfield,[3] playing at Fullback, i.e. number 15. Prior to 27 August 1895, Huddersfield was a rugby union club.
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Henry Huth won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in the 1878–79 Home Nations rugby union match against Scotland.[4]
When Huddersfield converted from the rugby union code to the rugby league code on 27 August 1895, Henry Huth would have been 39. Consequently, he may have been too old to have been both a rugby union and rugby league footballer for Huddersfield.
If Henry Huth's birth date (14 February 1856) and death date (31 December 1929) on ESPNscrum are correct, then he would have been 73 years old at the time of his death. However, FreeBMD quotes the age at the time of death of an Henry Huth registered during October→December 1929 in Kensington district as being 72.