Matt Schultz was carried from the field at Widnes with ruptured knee ligaments. As Dean Riddle, and physiotherapist Stuart Walker were lowering him into the dugout, someone distracted them and they banged his head on the top of the concrete bunker and broke his nose as well. At least it took the pain from his leg away. Stuart Duffy
Teddy Verrenkamp was playing on the wing for Leeds at Headingley and he got concussed. Nobody knew at the time and he went on to score six fabulous tries. He was absolutely brilliant, unstoppable, but when they came to ask him about them afterwards he couldn’t remember a thing about any of them. It just must have been so instinctive. Ruth Walker
In the days when second row forwards were not perceived to be the fittest and slickest and most mobile of men I can remember Phil Cookson starting a game for Leeds at Headingley on the wing. There was much hilarity in the ground and everybody started laughing when they read out the teamsheet over the Tannoy. We thought it must have been a mistake or a joke but there he was running out wearing the ill-fitting number five shirt - it was a really bizarre sight. Sue Munden
Lewis Jones was in the Marines before he came to Headingley with such a fanfare and doing his national service about the same time that I was, although I was in the Air Force. There were a lot of rugby league boys playing union in the forces and I played at quite a good level against some of them. Men like Billy Boston, Phil Jackson - who at the age of nineteen or twenty was probably the finest centre in the world on his day, a phenomenal player who was so powerful - Dennis Goodwin, Brian Gabbitas and Jack Lendill, who later starred for Leeds at full back. He represented the Signals at Catterick and they won everything for the army, even though they had virtually a side full of league players. Gordon Morrish
Comment added by Ernest Thompson: You must have over-looked the fabulous Geoff Gunney of Hunslet and Great Britain fame.– ERNEST THOMPSON, DECEMBER 17 2012
An immaculate performance by Lewis Jones at Knowsley Road, St Helens. No one touched him in attack or defence. Can't remember the result! John Foster
Originally published in 'Headingley Rugby Voices' Recollections of supporters, compiled by Phil Caplan.
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