Leeds nostalgia: Search is on for Leeds City Boys squad of 1948

I worked as a linotype operator at the Evening Post for many years, the enclosed picture is from a very personal period in my life when as a Leeds Schools' rugby league player (representing Brudenell), we won a major trophy for the city at Headingley - the prodigious Yorkshire Shield.

The picture shows the Leeds City Boys team of 1948 which we won for the city. I believe it was a first for rugby league after the war. The final was played against Hunslet Boys at Headingley as a curtain raiser to - if memory serves - an England game.

I remember scoring a try in corner and then walking back in front of the main stand to a rapturous ovation from crowd, which was gathering for the international match.

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