Harold Buck
Harold Buck was a British rugby league footballer. A winger,[1] in November 1921, Buck became rugby league's first £1,000 player when transferred from Hunslet to Leeds,[2] (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £139,100 in 2013).[3] Buck made his début for Leeds against Wigan at Headingley Stadium on Saturday 5 November 1921, he went on to play 99-matches for Leeds scoring 72-tries and 15-conversions, for 246-points.[4] Buck played Right-Wing, i.e. number 2, and scored a try in Leeds' 28-3 victory over Hull in the 1923 Challenge Cup final during the 1922-23 season at Belle Vue, Wakefield, the only occasion the Challenge Cup final has ever been staged at Belle Vue.[5] The Leeds backline in the early 1920s was known as the Busy Bs, as it included; Jim Bacon, A. Binks, Billy Bowen, Joe Brittain, and Harold Buck.[6]
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