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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Huddersfield Go Local - Huddersfield West Yorkshire
Huddersfield is a large town near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme.
Huddersfield itself was noted in the Domesday Book as a village known as Oderesfelt.
Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club based at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, in the Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
www.huddersfield-go-local.co.uk   (299 words)

  
 Salford Reds 2006 - Match Reports
Huddersfield's plight worsened when Stuart Jones was sin-binned for a late hit on Robinson and Salford made the extra man tell when Dunemann produced another moment of magic to put winger Hodgson in for his seventh try of the season.
Huddersfield were thrown a lifeline when Salford forward Andy Coley was sin binned for deliberate obstruction but they failed to capitalise as the rain worsened and the Reds' defence went into overdrive.
Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp felt the yellow card handed out to his forward Stuart Jones at a crucial point in the first half was "harsh", but otherwise he accepted Salford deserved their win.
www.reds.co.uk /match_archive/2006/round8_2006.html   (866 words)

  
 Huddersfield
Huddersfield, located in the heart of West Yorkshire, is a great place to live and study.
Huddersfield has topped the league for job creation and is one of the largest towns in the UK offering all the sporting, cultural and social amenities you would expect from a major regional centre.
Huddersfield caters for all tastes from around the world with a large selection of restaurants and cafes to suite every palate within the town centre.
www.hud.ac.uk /international/town.htm   (801 words)

  
 Thisis-Rugby - Super League: Huddersfield Giants
Huddersfield earnt the nickname, 'Team of All Talents', after winning the coveted 4 cups in the 1914/1915 season, with the side of 1913-14 and 1914-15 still being seen today as one of the greatest ever to play the game.
In 1913-14 Huddersfield won the treble, consisting of the League Championship, the Challenge Cup and the Yorkshire League Cup.
Following meetings between members of the Huddersfield Cricket and Athletics Club in 1921, it was decided that a Supporters Club should be formed.
www.thisis-rugby.com /league/superleague/huddersfield.htm   (254 words)

  
 Salford Reds 2006 - Match Reports
Evergreen scrum-half Robbie Paul was the Giants' hero, finishing off a break by prop Eorl Crabtree to score the match-winning try a minute from the end of a tense clash at the Galpharm Stadium.
Charles was wide with the goal kick to leave the scores tied but Huddersfield had the final say when a magnificent burst from Crabtree split the Salford defence and gave Paul a clear run to the line.
Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp paid tribute to the battling qualities of his side after they overcame the disappointment of their Challenge Cup defeat to claim two precious Super League points.
www.reds.co.uk /match_archive/2006/round26_2006.html   (841 words)

  
 Ananova - Sport - Rugbyl - Huddersfield Giants
Huddersfield consolidated their top-five spot in the Tetley's Super League with a hard-earned 26-20 victory at Warrington thanks to two tries in three second-half minutes.
Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp is without several of his regulars for the Tetley's Super League clash with Leeds Rhinos.
Huddersfield cemented their place in the top six of the Super League with a hard-earned 24-16 win over battling Salford in a scrappy game at the McAlpine Stadium.
www.ananova.com /sport/index.html?keywords=rugbyl,Huddersfield+Giants&menu=sport.rugbyleague.superleague.huddersfieldgiants   (321 words)

  
 The Rugby Football League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Huddersfield Giants captain Chris Thorman insists his side will take the positives from their Powergen Challenge Cup defeat and use them in the fight to avoid relegation.
Huddersfield Giants captain Chris Thorman is backing little-known teenager Tom Hemingway to successfully fill his boots if he fails to win his fitness battle for Saturday’s Powergen Challenge Cup final against St Helens.
Huddersfield Giants captain Chris Thorman is turning to acupuncture in a last desperate bid to regain fitness for Saturday’s Powergen Challenge Cup final against St Helens.
www.therfl.co.uk /CHALLENGE/news.php?pageNum_newset=1   (441 words)

  
 Huddersfield Giants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club based at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, in the Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
Huddersfield's dominance prior to the First World War was such that they went unbeaten in 38 consecutive matches before the suspension of the league in 1914.
Huddersfield lost the Challenge Cup Final to eventual Super League champions St Helens 42-12, but the performance heralds the best Huddersfield achievement since the modern era began in 1970, and many believe has finally and firmly closed the book on one of the club's darkest chapters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huddersfield_Giants   (2135 words)

  
 Official Site of the 2006 Challenge Cup Finalists
Giants Head Coach Jon Sharp is delighted with the way pre-season training has gone so far and he is keen to keep up the intensity over the festive period with just over five weeks to go until the opening Super League fixture against St Helens.
Huddersfield Giants stars will be appearing in both the Stadium Superstore and the Sporting Pride Store on Cloth Hall Street this Thursday in the last night Shopping opportunity before Christmas with Jon Skandalis making his first public appearance since jetting into the UK.
Huddersfield Giants have been given the opportunity to charter a plane to Perpignan for the game against Catalans Dragons on Saturday 17th March.
giantsrl.dnsupdate.co.uk /latestNews/newsList.asp   (385 words)

  
 Ananova - Sport - Huddersfield Giants
Huddersfield consolidated their top-five spot in the Tetley's Super League with a hard-earned 26-20 victory at Warrington thanks to two tries in three second-half minutes.
Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp is without several of his regulars for the Tetley's Super League clash with Leeds Rhinos.
Huddersfield cemented their place in the top six of the Super League with a hard-earned 24-16 win over battling Salford in a scrappy game at the McAlpine Stadium.
ananova.com /sport/index.html?keywords=Huddersfield+Giants&...   (290 words)

  
 Saints v Giants
Talau's try, the result of a crisp passing move, was the sole highlight of a turgid twenty minute period before half-time that had been punctuated by some poor handling from both sides and a couple of curious decisions from referee Karl Kirkpatrick.
The Giants had had a similarly poor first-half last week against Hull FC before a sterling fightback, and they came out for the second half with every intention of going one better and claiming the two Super League points.
The Giants were far from finished, and after Evans beat Roby to score from 30 metres, Thorman's fourth conversion of the night made it 28-24.
saints.merseyworld.com /html/fix/1stReports/Giants25-02-05.html   (422 words)

  
 Huddersfield Giants - Rugby - Sport
Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club based at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, England.
The earliest record of a football match being played in the Huddersfield area is in 1848, when a team of men from Hepworth took on a team of men from Holmfirth near Whinney Bank in Holmfirth.
In an advertisement headed "Huddersfield Athletic Club" they invited "gentlemen desirous of becoming members" to a public meeting at 8 o'clock on the evening of November 16th, 1864 at the Queen Hotel.
www.huddsonline.co.uk /huddersfield_giants_rugby_sport.htm   (308 words)

  
 Huddersfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Huddersfield Parish Church (St Peter's Church) was constructed in 1838 and is located adjacent to the town centre, on Byram Street, near the Pack Horse Centre.
Huddersfield is still a focus for rugby league, being represented by the Huddersfield Giants in the Superleague, and the Huddersfield Underbank Rangers in National League 3.
The Huddersfield Giants (under their original name of Huddersfield Rugby League Club) have won the Rugby League Championship seven times, most recently in 1961-62, and the Challenge Cup six times, the last success being in 1952-53.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huddersfield   (2922 words)

  
 Huddersfield Town | Club | Magnificent 7s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Huddersfield Town and Huddersfield Giants are once again running the Sporting Pride 7's Scheme.
The children are invited to attend a Huddersfield Town or Huddersfield Giants match and are presented with their shirts prior to the game.
Growth of support in our schools is a very important part of Huddersfield Town and Huddersfield Giants development and throughout the season both Club's will be running promotions which will offer all children and their families the opportunity to take part.
www.htafc.premiumtv.co.uk /page/SportingPride7sScheme/0,,10312,00.html   (315 words)

  
 Halifax RLFC 22 Huddersfield Giants 21
Huddersfield started the game brightly dominating in the forwards and around the ruck area, and deservedly took the lead on five minutes.
Fax started to make some inroads into the Giants defence and Wayne Corcoran went close to pulling a try back, held up just short of the try line on the last tackle, but the Giants were the next to score, on 24 minutes.
A Williams drop-goal on 70 minutes edged the Giants a point further clear and the full-back booted over a penalty 2 minutes later after Ben Feehan was adjudged not to be square at the play the ball.
www.bluesox.co.uk /revamp/CGI_Built/news/2005/01/050104-0001.html   (661 words)

  
 Huddersfield Giants 26-20 Warrington Wolves || Wired Rugby League - Unofficial Warrington Wolves News and Views
The Wolves, who were without five regulars, caught their hosts cold with two tries in the first seven minutes but were gradually overhauled by a gritty Giants side in an exciting second half.
Huddersfield, who had five players making their home debuts, lost influential hooker Brad Drew with a leg injury after 25 minutes - but they gradually worked their way back into the game.
It was no surprise when the Giants went in front for the first time on 52 minutes, Wild using his strength and guile to get Aspinwall over for a try.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s449/st91073.htm   (458 words)

  
 Warrington Wolves 30-26 Huddersfield Giants || Wired Rugby League - Unofficial Warrington Wolves News and Views
Giants took the lead through a Kevin Brown try and worked hard to stay in the game after four first-half tries from Warrington - two from promising scrum-half Simon Grix - had given them a 22-4 half-time lead.
But Huddersfield finally broke the deadlock in the 18th minute when scrum-half Robbie Paul dummied one way at dummy half before sending a grubber kick to the blindside for Brown to touch down.
Warrington were now in full stride and a Huddersfield penalty in the 31st minute allowed them to reinforce their advantage.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s449/st100093.htm   (610 words)

  
 Huddersfield Giants 16 Gateshead Thunder 40 | Huddersfield Fixtures, Results, Match Reports
Huddersfield actually took the lead in the eighth minute when Bobbie Goulding kicked through for young centre Martin Gleeson to touch down.
And the Giants held a semblance of control until the 17th minute when winger Andy Cheetham was carried off with a neck injury.
Huddersfield prop Nick Fozzard barged over on 61 minutes and winger Danny Arnold grabbed his 49th try in Super League 10 minutes later as Huddersfield found some respectability - but their fightback did not last long.
www.sporting-life.com /rugbyleague/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/99/07/25/RUGBYL_Huddersfield_Nightlead.html&TEAMHD=huddersfield&HEADER=HUDDERSFIELD&YEAR=1999   (383 words)

  
 Bet on Huddersfield Giants with Coral
Huddersfield Giants one of the elite members of the Super League one of the bastions of the modern game of Rugby League with some of the most exciting players of any team.
Prior to the formation of the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895 (this later took the name of the Rugby Football League in the early 1920's) the Huddersfield Club had an active and honourable life of around thirty years as part of the English Rugby Union.
On Thursday 29th August the meeting at the George Hotel, Huddersfield was held and Rugby League was born.
www.play-to-win.co.uk /rugbyleague/huddersfield.htm   (300 words)

  
 Metro: Huddersfield Line
Leeds - Cottingley - Morley - Batley - Dewsbury - Ravensthorpe / Wakefield Westgate - Wakefield Kirkgate - Mirfield - Deighton - Huddersfield - Slaithwaite - Marsden - Stalybridge - Manchester Victoria / Manchester Piccadilly - Manchester Airport / Warrington - Liverpool Lime Street
Services start at Hull, York, Scarborough, Middlesbrough or Newcastle; see the York and Selby Lines timetable.
There are 4 trains between Huddersfield and Leeds overnight on TransPennine Express (from 2330 until 0530).
www.wymetro.com /TrainTravel/MetroTrainTimetablesAndRoutes/HuddersfieldLine.htm   (173 words)

  
 Huddersfield Giants 22 Saints 36
Despite this, it was Huddersfield who scored next, Thorman benefiting when Gene's kick ricocheted off Hooper to take the teams in level at the break at 12-all.
Finding themselves twelve points down again, the Giants were forced to chase the game but when Vinnie Anderson intercepted Gannon's pass for a six-pointer the game was well beyond the home side.
A consolation try by Nero as the clock ran down will have done little to cheer a team who have dropped down to eighth place, and already are looking at sixth place as the limit of their ambitions.
saints.merseyworld.com /html/fix/1stReports/Giants24-04-05.html   (583 words)

  
 huddersfield.rlfans.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Billie Rox is the venue this weekend for all the young Giants fans to be seen, as the club hold a Christmas party for the kids on 17th December between 5pm and 7pm.
Giants assistant coach Kieron Purtill led the small team of officials with the purpose of the visit being to get a behind the scenes look into the running of the Wests Tigers.
Huddersfield Giants will again head for the Algarve for the Pre-Season training camp in the New Year as they get ready for the start of Super League XII.
huddersfield.rlfans.com /news.php   (998 words)

  
 Rleague.com - Round 5 - Huddersfield Giants 16 l. St Helens 18
Huddersfield have, with the exception of one half against Wigan, a solid defensive record and were not going to be blown away in the opening minutes easily.
The Giants did not have everything their own way, and substitute Maurie Fa?asavalu was proving to be a handful for the Giants defence.
Huddersfield kept in touch through the boot of Thorman with two penalties either side of half-time as they took advantage of a 7-1 penalty count to get within one score at 12-6.
www.rleague.com /db/index.php?id=74289   (898 words)

  
 Halifax RLFC 12 Huddersfield Giants 54
Impressive youngster Paul White went over for his second try in only his third start for the Giants and when Jarrod O'Doherty touched down on the stroke of half-time it was all over for Halifax.
The only response from Halifax was a 70-metre effort from winger Lee Greenwood, who caught a high bomb and sprinted away from the Giants cover defence to touch down beneath the posts for Finn to convert.
Shortly after the restart Giants winger Hefin O'Hare piled on the agony with the next try before Gene got in on the act with a hat-trick, the second a superb solo effort.
www.bluesox.co.uk /revamp/CGI_Built/news/2003/08/030816-0001.html   (568 words)

  
 Bradford Bulls - Official Site
The Giants staged a remarkable second-half comeback with a try-scoring flurry and actually took the lead with eight minutes to go, but in the end the Bulls' power, pace and determination proved conclusive.
Huddersfield mounted a furious onslaught on the Bulls' line early on and second-rower Andy Raleigh rode a high tackle before twisting over the line for a try which Michael De Vere goaled.
Both came from former Giants winger Marcus St Hilaire, who was left with a simple run to the line with no opposition within reach - Deacon added the extras on each occasion.
www.bradfordbulls.co.uk /bb_history_full.asp?fixtureid=379   (518 words)

  
 University sponsors the Huddersfield Giants
The University of Huddersfield will be the name emblazoned across the playing shirts of local rugby league team the Huddersfield Giants for the 2005 season.
In a first for the game of rugby league, the University and club are forging links across all spectrums of their business in a deal which both believe will be of significant benefit to each other.
The Giants are looking at the possibility of constructing a Super League standard rugby pitch at the University's site at Storthes Hall Park and our students will be able to use this as well.
www.hud.ac.uk /news/04_11/05huddersfield_giants.htm   (527 words)

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