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F U R T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N Brad kindly set a picture of the medal along with a team photograph.
As requested here are pictures of my Grandfather's medal and a team picture from the same year. Henry Barraclough is in the back row second from the right. This is a little extra. My grandfather was proprietor of The Bulls Head Inn, Jacks Lane, Hunslet, Leeds. He bought the Pub from George Duxbury Oct. 8, 1912. Apparently members of the Hunslet team frequented this pub.
Can anybody add any more to this story? Henry Barraclough is not listed as a first team player for 1887-88 and was not a member of the Four Cups side in 1908. How about the The Bulls Head in Jack Lane? It doesn't exist anymore. Was it renamed or pulled down?
Following this story I contacted the Rugby Football Union about a well known painting they own of a Roses match prior to the split, probably at Park Avenue in Bradford. It is often suggested that players who switched to the Nothern Union were painted out rather like Stalin making Trotsky disappear. However, that would have only left one or two players on the picture!
The player in the middle of the painting who has just passed the ball has been identified as A Barraclough who I understand played for Mannigham (later to become Bradford City AFC) Could they be related?
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