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14-463: The award is named after Albert Goldthorpe , who is regarded as English rugby league 's first superstar. The Albert Goldthorpe Medal is a solid gold medal worth several thousand UK pounds, incorporating a photograph of Goldthorpe with " All Four Cups ". The award was introduced in the 2008 season to commemorate the centenary of the feat of Goldthorpe in leading Hunslet to become the first club to win all four major trophies in one season in 1908. It

28-513: Is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman , Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney . It depicts the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain , the first-ever such tour by the Australia national rugby league team . The First Kangaroos drew complaints from the granddaughter of British rugby league legend Albert Goldthorpe for its villainous depiction of him. Some scenes featured

42-628: Is intended to parallel the ' Dally M Medal ' named after the great Australian player Dally Messenger , which is awarded to the NRL player of the year by rugby league writers associated with the News Limited series of newspapers in Australia. League Express reporters cast votes for the Albert Goldthorpe Medal after every Super League game in the regular season. The three players who, in the opinion of

56-479: The 1907–08 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1907–08 season at Headingley , Leeds on Saturday 21 December 1907. When he finally retired in 1910, Goldthorpe had scored more goals and points than any player in the game's history at that time. He had played at least 713 games for Hunslet, scoring over 80 tries and kicking over 1000 goals. After his playing career ended he served on the Hunslet committee until, in 1924, he

70-457: The 1907–08 season at Fartown Ground , Huddersfield on Saturday 25 April 1908, in front of a crowd of 18,000. Albert Goldthorpe played stand-off in Hunslet 's 13-3 victory over Halifax in the 1905–06 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1905–06 season at Park Avenue , Bradford on Saturday 2 December 1905, and played scrum-half , and scored 3- drop goals in the 17-0 victory over Halifax in

84-603: The Albert Goldthorpe Medal was created by British rugby league newspaper Rugby Leaguer & League Express to honour the leading players in the Super League . On 20 August 2009, transport company Arriva Yorkshire honoured 13 rugby league footballers at a ceremony at The Jungle , the home of the Castleford Tigers . A fleet of new buses were named after the 'Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team'. Members of

98-502: The Super League or National Rugby League prior to the start of the season. Awarded to the years retirees: Albert Goldthorpe Albert Edward Goldthorpe (3 November 1871 – 8 January 1943) was an English rugby footballer from the period around 1895's schism in English rugby, which led to the formation of rugby league football around the turn of the century. One of five brothers (four of whom at one period played together in

112-487: The grandstand of Arlington Oval in the inner-western Sydney suburb Dulwich Hill which hosted women's competitions of the 1938 British Empire Games . Both Wayne Pearce ( Balmain Tigers ) and Andrew Ettingshausen ( Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks ) were current Australian rugby league test players when the film was released. Pearce had been a member of the undefeated 1982 Kangaroo tour , while Ettingshausen would go on to be

126-442: The leading try scorer on both the 1990 and 1994 Kangaroo Tours . Karen Hardy, reviewing the film in 2013 said, "Sure, it wasn't the finest sports movie ever made but there was humour – intentional or not, I wasn't quite sure – and conflict and pathos. And its story, which it admitted in the opening credits was sort of based on true events, was an interesting one." This article related to an Australian made-for-TV movie

140-624: The public nominated the best ever rugby league footballers to have played in West Yorkshire, supported by local rugby league journalists; James Deighton from BBC Leeds, and Tim Butcher, editor of Rugby League World . The 'Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team' is; Trevor Foster MBE , Neil Fox MBE , Albert Goldthorpe, Alan Hardisty , Stan Kielty , Lewis Jones , Roger Millward MBE , Malcolm Reilly , Garry Schofield , Keith Senior , David Topliss , Dave Valentine and Adrian Vowles . The First Kangaroos The First Kangaroos

154-461: The reporters, have been the three 'best and fairest' players in the game will receive three points, two points and one point respectively. To be eligible for a vote, a player must not have been suspended from the competition at any stage during the season. The League Express also award a Rookie of the Year medal annually. To be eligible for the award, players must have made fewer than ten appearances in

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168-543: The same Hunslet team), Goldthorpe made his first team début with Hunslet , at fullback , as a 16-year-old in October, 1888. He went on to become one of the best known figures in English rugby, both before and after the split, and he was one of the finest individual talents in the game at the time of the Northern Union 's formation in 1895 . He was also a successful cricketer , captaining the team for several years. Goldthorpe

182-585: Was appointed as the club's second full-time secretary-manager, a post he held for seven years. He had been a member of the committee from at least 15th Nov, 1895, along with his brother James. Albert farmed Urn Farm on Middleton Road, Belle Isle, Leeds and is buried in Hunslet Cemetery nearby. Goldthorpe died in 1942 aged 72. In 1988 an Australian television movie, The First Kangaroos actor Dennis Waterman 's villainous depiction of Goldthorpe drew formal complaints from Goldthorpe's granddaughter. In 2008,

196-641: Was still playing for Hunslet twenty years after his debut, when in the 1907-08 season he led the club to unprecedented success, winning all four cups (the Challenge Cup , the Championship , the Yorkshire Cup and the Yorkshire League). Hunslet were the first team to achieve that feat. Albert Goldthorpe played stand-off in Hunslet 's 14-0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1907–08 Challenge Cup Final during

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