On Feb 9th 1918 Northern played an away fixture versus Brighouse Rangers - a match that should never have been played. The Brighouse pitch was covered in 8" of snow with howling blizzards going on at the same time. Brighouse didn't want to play but Northern's directors insisted and the game went ahead in front of 9 (NINE) spectators.

The match was abandoned after 35 minutes but the result stood. Northern won 13-11.

great work in the piece but I'd be extremely surprised if Gerald Cordle was playing [rosetint]much as we could have done with him [rosetint] that season

Also if ever there was a player that would have benefitted from full time superleague training it would have been Neil Summers

Prepare to be extremely surprised. I copied that team line-up from the T&A’s match report the following day.