Bill Jukes

William Jukes
Personal information
Full name William Jukes
Nickname Bill, Billy
Born circa-1883
Featherstone
Playing information
Height 5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm)
Weight 12 st 10 lb (80.7 kg; 178.0 lb)
Position Prop, Hooker, Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1905–≤05 Featherstone Rovers
≤1905–≥11 Hunslet 307 95 3
Total 307 95 3 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1906/07–≥06/07 Yorkshire
1908–11 England 9 0 0 0 0
1908–10 Great Britain 6 0 0 0 0
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk

William "Bill"/"Billy" Jukes (circa-1883 — death unknown) born in Featherstone, was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s, playing at representative level for Great Britain England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Hunslet (281 official matches, plus 26 wartime matches), as a Prop, Hooker, or Second-row, i.e. number 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 during the era of contested scrums.[1]

Playing career

International honours

Bill Jukes won a number of caps for England while at Hunslet. In 1908 he won against Wales, in 1909 against Australia (3 matches), and Wales, in 1910 against Wales (2 matches), in 1911 against Australia (2 matches),[2] and won caps for Great Britain while at Hunslet in 1908-09 against Australia (3 matches), and on the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand against Australia (2 matches), Australasia (2 matches), and New Zealand.[3][4]

All Four Cups, and "The Terrible Six"

Bill Jukes was a member of Hunslet's 1907–08 season All Four Cups winning team, the Forwards were known as "The Terrible Six" they were; Tom Walsh, Harry Wilson, Jack Randall, Bill "Tubby" Brookes, Bill Jukes, and John Willie Higson.[5]

County Cup final appearances

Bill Jukes played Left-Second-row, i.e. number 11, in Hunslet's 13-3 victory over Halifax in the 1905 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1905–06 season at Park Avenue, Bradford on Saturday 2 December 1905, and played Right-Second-row, i.e. number 12, in the 17-0 victory over Halifax in the 1907 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1907–08 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 21 December 1907.

Testimonial match

At the end of the 1919–20 season, a Testimonial match for both Bill Jukes, and Fred Smith, took place between Hunslet and Billy Batten's Hunslet XIII, a team of former Hunslet players, including a 48-year old Albert Goldthorpe, who scored a drop goal, the match took place at Parkside, Hunslet.[6]

Club career

Bill Jukes scored the try in Hunslet's 3-3 draw with Australia during the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain at Parkside, Hunslet on Saturday 21 October 1911.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 14 May 1910 — Football". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 14 May 1910. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  5. ↑ "Hunslet remembered - Leisure and sport". hunslet.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tom Mather (2010). "Best in the Northern Union". Pages 128-142. ISBN 978-1-903659-51-9

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