Hull KR’s Youngest Ever Player
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Extract from a newspaper discussing Tommy Land, KR’s youngest ever player when he joined the club at the age of just 13 in the early 1900s.
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Hull KR 1913/14 Team Photo
Back row: C McDonald (inset) A Mann, J Oliver, W Sandham, W Huskins, L Trump, G Gillie, T McGiever (inset)
Middle row : R Hicks, E Hodgson, A Moore, A Carmichael (capt.) D Lewis, C Brain
Front row: E Gill, S Clark, H Lord, T Dean, W Shiel
Arthur Moore
Arthur Moore, Heritage Number 170, played 341 games between 3/4/1909 to 25/12/1924 scoring 2 goals and 90 tries.
Alf ‘Bunker’ Carmichael
Alf ‘Bunker’ Carmichael, Heritage Number 70, played 338 games between 20/4/1901 to 25/1/1919 scoring 723 goals and 12 tries.
Arthur Moore 1920/21 with mascots & referee
Arthur Moore, Heritage Number 170, made 341 appearances between 3/4/1909 and 25/12/24, scoring 2 goals and 90 tries.
The mascots are Miss Broadwith and Master Moore. The referee is Mr. A Brown of Wakefield.
W (Mucker) Clark
W (Mucker) Clark, Heritage Number 215, made 163 appearances between 6/9/1913 and 10/4/1926, scoring 5 goals and 66 tries.
Gilbert Austin
Gilbert Austin, Heritage Number 240, played 347 games between 25/1/1919 and 7/1/1928 scoring 29 goals and 163 tries.
Hull Kingston Rovers Records – Consecutive Appearances
Gilbert Austin made 190 consecutive appearances between 25-1-1919 and 1-12-1923.
Over his 347 match career with the Robins, Austin scored a total of 163 tries – including a then record 37 in the glorious 1924/25 season, in which he touched down six times in a Yorkshire Cup tie against Halifax. His 190 consecutive games stood as a rugby league record for over 50 years until it was finally beaten by Widnes hooker Keith Elwell in the 1980s.
Hull Kingston Rovers Records – Goals in a Game
Four players share the record of scoring 14 goals in a match. They are: top left, Alf ‘Bunker’ Carmichael v Merthyr Tydfil on 8-10-1910.
Bottom left, Mike Fletcher v Whitehaven on 18-3-1990. Top right, Colin Armstrong v Nottingham City on 19-8-1990 and bottom right, Damien Couturier v Halifax on 23-4-2006.