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Huddersfield Giants - Rugby - Sport

Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club based at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, England. They play in the Super League in a distinctive strip of a claret shirt with thin gold hoops, claret shorts and claret and gold hooped socks and are known colloquially as "Fartown".

History - The founding

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. Hepworth won a close fought game which "exhibited the usual amount of confusions, bloody noses, etc" and took the prize of £5 which had been jointly donated by each side.

In 1864 the towns's theatre was commandeered by the local Volunteer Rifle Corps for use as a drill hall. In turn, the Apollo Gymnasium was turned into the Gymnasium Theatre. This left the keen athletes of Le Blanc's club with nowhere to go and they responded by forming a more organised athletics association. 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. The meeting went ahead, a hundred names were registered and a committee was formed. Within a month a new gymnasium was in service in a basement on Back John William Street.

Honours

* Championship: 1911-12, 1912-13, 1914-15, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1948-49, 1961-62 (7 times)
* Challenge Cup : 1912-13, 1914-15, 1919-20, 1932-33, 1944-45, 1952-53 (6 times)
* Division Two Championship (including Northern Ford Premiership): 1974-75, 2002 (2 times)
* Division Three Championship: 1991-92
* Divisional Premiership: 1998
* Yorkshire Cup (Rugby Union): 1889-90
* Yorkshire Cup (Rugby League): 1909-10, 1911-12, 1913-14, 1914-15, 1918-19, 1919-20, 1926-27, 1931-32, 1938-39, 1950-51, 1952-53, 1957-58 (12 times)
* Yorkshire League: 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-4, 1914-15, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1948-49, 1949-50, 1951-52 (11 times)
* National League Cup: 2002