At the end of the 2022/23 season, our club historian Norman Angell stood down from his role. Before he did, he handed the reigns over to our new club historian Stephen Hodgson. Each week, Stephen will delve into the club’s history books to provide a trip down memory lane from 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Do you feature this week?
3 November 2018 – Northern Premier Division : Ilkley 8-23 Hull
Hull survived two second half yellow cards to beat Ilkley and stay top of the table. A hat trick of tries from Stephen Hihetahgave Hull victory despite losing Tom O’Donnell to a yellow card just 30 seconds into the second half followed by an Ilkley tap penalty that resulted in a try. Hull defended well following a second yellow card to Liam Regardsoe for a high tackle and finished the game with Hihetah scoring his third try to seal the win.
Team: L Birch, B Winterburn, A Heard, S Johnson, S Hihetah, S Humberstone, R Watts, M Dias, M Jobling, B Boothman, P Hamber, C Curry, T O’Donnell, R Kay, J Stafford. Subs: T Rice, T Tanumi, L Regardsoe
Tries: S Hihetah 3
Con: S Humberstone
Pen: S Humberstone 2
2 November 2013 – National Two North : Hull 22-30 Preston Grasshoppers
Present team captain Ali Heard made his debut for the club at outside centre alongside former Hull FC player and coach Lee Radford in this fixture 10 years ago. In addition James Cameron, in his 6th season and 120th game, became the club’s record points scorer breaking the previous record held by Dave Prescott. Cameron scored 17 of Hull’s 22 points and he remains the club’s record points scorer to this day.
A first half try from Dominic Lespierre contributed to a 16-10 half time lead for Hull but following yellow cards for Chris Murphy and Ben Dorrington visitors Preston took control in the second half eventually scoring 5 tries to win the game.
Team: J Barnard, J Bright, A Heard, L Radford, D Lespierre, J Cameron, S Hay, H Lloyd, J Lamping, R Stout, C Murphy, L Brown, B Dorrington, K Wood, O Cook. Subs: T Price, M Alderson, B Sullivan, N Nyemba.
Tries: D Lespierre
Con: J Cameron
Pen: J Cameron 5
8 November 2008 – North One : Morley 22-23 Hull
Hull stayed top of the table after a narrow victory at Morley to spoil their 130th anniversary celebrations commemorating their first ever game on 9 November 1878. Guy Martinson landed an early penalty but soon after Morley led 14-3 before Martinson landed his second penalty of the afternoon.
Darren Wigg’s slick one-handed off-load put Mateo Malupo away to race 50 yards to score and he scored again shortly afterwards under the posts with Martinson kicking the conversion. Morley regained the lead when Chris Kendra was yellow carded but Hull won it with a try from Martinson in the corner.
Team: M White, G Martinson, M David, A Piercy, M Malupo, J Cameron, C Kendra, J Ward, S Plevey, M Finau, C Murphy, D Cook, L Makaafi, S Onesi, R Devonshire. Subs: T Molitera, C Harding, D Wigg
Tries: M Malupo 2, G Martinson
Con: G Martinson
Pen: G Martinson 2
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