When 31,000 plus watched Saints avenge Leigh in the Challenge Cup
Rex Mossop being halted by Saints' Alan Prescott LAST week's article on Leigh's Rex Mossop claiming a cheeky Christmas Day try against Saints in the early 1950s prompted a few of our readers to think back to previous keen exchanges between the sides. This submitted picture captures a packed house at what was still then known as Kirkhall Lane, Leigh - six years before being renamed Hilton Park. Australian forward Mossop goes close with Saints players George Parsons, Ray Cale, Alan Prescott and Jimmy Honey in attendance. The match is the Challenge Cup quarter final clash of 14 March 19...
Source: leighjournal.co.uk