[Lord Snooty]

June 14:

The year is 1908. A piece of land opposite Canker Lane has been purchased, the land which Huddersfield Technical College had been using as a football pitch. A stand had been built and the area fenced off. Five football matches have been played there, the latest being the Huddersfield & District championship decider between Skelmanthorpe and Meltham. And now the area next to this piece of land has also been acquired.

So everything was in place for the foundation of a Huddersfield football club. Things were going so fast though that on this date in 1908, the proposed club was elected into the North-Eastern League, before the club had actually been founded or even a name decided on. That was all sorted out a few days later at a meeting at the Albert Hotel in Victoria Lane. More on that later........