Problems for the Halifax Junior League got worse before they got better. There was no league at all at the start of the decade. There are Courier references to the “moribund state of the junior game in Halifax”, and “junior football is almost at a standstill”. Elland Wanderers had another ...

The outbreak of War once more in 1939 inevitably brought tremendous problems. In the weeks before it began there had been talk of Halifax and Keighley amalgamating to form a joint open age league, with interest from Tank Company, The 278th Field Battery and Auxiliary Fire Service, but the decision ...

It took some time for the junior game to resume after the War. The professionals had restarted in January 1919, but for local clubs it took much longer to reorganise, muster players and find grounds. Encouraged by Halifax NUFC with financial support, the junior league committee met on 13 March ...

All this creates an impression that the league became huge, but that wasn’t the case. Teams disappeared with as much regularity as they arrived. Siddal, playing at least some of the time at Backhold Lane, were never fully established as a club in this period, not operating every season, and ...