The England international rugby league players Garry Schofield, Jason Robinson and Sonny Nickle and the philosopher Paul Crowther also grew up there and were pupils at Belle Isle Primary School.
He led the Lions to five wins from five and players such as Tom Spencer (Wigan Warriors), Daniel Rooney (Workington Town) and Alex Walmsley (Batley Bulldogs) have since graced the professional ranks.
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Arriva Yorkshire honoured 13 rugby league footballers on Thursday 20 August 2009, at a ceremony at The Jungle, the home of the Castleford Tigers.
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A year earlier, the Tigers won the National Panasonic Cup - Schofield's only major winner's medal at club level (not including the Yorkshire Cup which he won at Leeds in 1988).
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Garry E. Schofield OBE (born 1 July 1965 in Hunslet, Leeds) is an English retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s and is a member of the British Rugby League Hall of Fame, which comprises the greatest 21 Rugby League players this country has ever seen, having been inducted in November 2013.
Garry Schofield (born 1965), English retired rugby league footballer
Martin was employed as a business consultant for corporate communications giants Wish Communications with Garry Schofield OBE and John Stankevitch but has since taken up the role of Strength and Conditioning Coach at Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the Super League.
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1: Huddersfield, England - Four new members are formally inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame at a fundraising dinner at the John Smith's Stadium: Lewis Jones, Martin Offiah, Garry Schofield and Mick Sullivan.
In 1990 a Great Britain team including Shaun Edwards, Garry Schofield, Martin Offiah and Denis Betts were embarrassed by a 25-18 loss, which was France's first victory on English soil for 23 years.
His sporting heroes growing up were former Leeds star Garry Schofield and ex-Manchester United and England football captain, Bryan Robson.
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.