Wigan Album
WIGAN LEAGUE CUP WINNERS 1922
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Photo: Keith Bowen
Item #: 9162
The team is labelled on the photo :- Left to right, Standing :-
Webster, Woods, Shaw, Roffey, Hodder, Banks, Walford
Seated :- Howley, Shea, Hesketh, Coles, Coldrick, Sullivan, Smith, Jerram, Hurcombe.
I think I'm right in saying that this was the legendary Jim Sullivan's first year at Wigan, after having been signed as a prodigiously talented 17 year old who was playing for Cardiff RU first team and destined to be a Welsh RU international but signed professionally before he could represent Wales. Somehow he just doesn't look a mere 18 year old teenager in this photo. Jim mentioned, many years later, that Jerry Shea, the Wigan centre and a fellow Welshman and ex-boxer, was the hardest player he'd ever come across in League, that's saying something when you consider Jim himself was no "softie"!!
There are no fewer than nine Welshmen in this photo.
I Met The Daughter Of Percy Coldrick and her grandchildren on a tour of central park of which i did a video of the ground and also of the pavillion and trophy room just before it was demolished,
Hi Kieth i also have a dvd of a group of players having a round the table chat, one of the players being your father,in the pub The Griffin when B Boston had it
Intrigued by meeting with Percy Coldrick's daughter. My mother died in 1990. Wasn't aware she'd been in her later years
Could have been unmarried daughter and Percy junior's relatives
My grandad Jerry Shea started a proud rugby heritage. Any info or photos would be wonderful to show our children as he gave everything away !
my grandfather is on there,sadly never met him as he passed away before i was born. Looking on here at other photos, my great grandfather is on, i believe he was trainer of Wigan RLFC in the early 1900s John or Jack Hesketh.