Hull Kingston Rovers Hull Kingston Rovers (often abbreviated to Hull KR) are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Craven Park, Hull, Craven Park and compete in Super League, the top tier of B ...

is an English

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club, and prior to the 1897–98 (being elected to the Yorkshire Senior Competition for the 1899–1900), it was a

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(RU) club, who have had numerous notable players (1,310 (excludes pre-1895 season

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players) as of 20 June 2024) throughout their history, each player of the rugby league era who has played (and so excludes non-playing substitutes) in a competitive first-class match (including those matches that were subsequently abandoned, expunged or re-played, but excluding friendlies) is included.David Bond (6 October 2018). "20 Legends: Hull Kingston Rovers". Vertical Editions

Players

* ^¹ = Played For Hull Kingston Rovers During More Than One Period * ^² = drop-goals are currently worth 1-point, but from the 1897–98 to prior to the 1973-74 all

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s, whether;

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s, penalties, or drop-goals, scored two points, consequently during this time drop-goals were often not explicitly documented, and "0" indicates that drop-goals may not have been recorded, rather than no drop-goals scored. In addition, prior to the 1949–50, the Field-goal was also still a valid means of scoring points * ^³ = During the first two seasons of the

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(now known as the Rugby Football League), i.e. the 1895–96 and 1896–97,

s were worth 2-points,

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goals 3-points and

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s 4-points. * BBC =

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* CC =

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* CF =

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* CM = Captain Morgan Trophy * RT = League Cup, i.e. Player's № 6, John Player (Special), Regal Trophy * YC =

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County Cup * YL = Yorkshire League

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External links

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