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Hull Flyers
Arena: Hull City Hall {Kingston-Upon-Hull} -
Capacity {1,200}
Colours: Indigo & Old Gold
Coach: Katurah Hiller {Rated 0} - {1954}
Honours: None
Most Appearances: 0
Most Goals: 0
In a Season: 0
In a Game: 0
Oldest player: None
Youngest player: None
Record Attendance: 0
Best position: Making their Senior Debut in 1954
Club anthem: Fly Away {since 2000}
Previous anthems
Amy Wonderful Amy {1954}
Fly Me To The Moon {1955-1999}
Correct up to January 1st 1954
New Signing - Peggy Flewett
Right Guard {Rated 0}
Age 26 {24/04/27}
Born: Bradford, England
New Signing
Previous Club: Durham
Apps: 17 {1952-1953}
Goals: 2 {1952-1953}
as a model who had a bit part in a movie in 1948 and auditioned to be a BBC TV announcer in 1951 but was rejected as being too beautiful and distracting. Is a red head. Married former racing driverand farmer Clive Lawson {Jack Dunfee} 1953. Was sin binned in 1953 for delibertely hitting Jilly Browne of Essex with her bat. Left demoted Durham for newly promoted Hull in 1954
New Signing - Enid Gleadle
{Nee Percheron}
Shooter {Rated 0}
Age 31 {27/08/21}
Born: Neville's Cross
New Signing
Previous Club: Durham
Apps: 30
Goals: 20
Born Enid Percheron. French father, Durham mother of Irish ancestry. She married in 1941 and became a war widow in 1944, she met and married her second husband in 1945. Scored a hat-trick on her debut 1st March 1952 and by the time of Durham's demotion in 1953 was their record goalscorer, joint appearance record holder and oldest player to represent the club, but left for newly promoted Hull at the end of the season. Was hired by the BBC to interview the public at the coronation.
Patricia Williams
Netminder {Rated 0}
Age 21 {14/07/32}
Born: Sheffield
Apps: 0
Goals: NA
Kept goal as the Flyers squeezed into the final promotion spot for Gridball 1954.
Avril Grahame
Left Guard {Rated 0}
Age 21 {04/06/32}
Born: Doncaster
Apps: 0
Goals: 0
Studied ballet as a child
Mollie Clegg
{Isabel Mawby}
Right Guard {Rated 0}
Age 31 {07/09/22}
Born: Leeds
Apps: 0
Goals: 0
Studied ballet as a child
Virginia Chaytor-Carter
{Born Virginia Louisa Mason}
Sweeper {Rated 0}
Age 36 {09/11/17}
Born: Liverpool
Apps: 0
Goals: 0
Virginia was a leading young badminton player from 1933 to 1939 before retiring from the sport . She retired from competition on marrying Baron James Chaytor-Carter in 1939, becoming Baroness Chaytor-Carter.
During the war her husband won the Victoria Cross for his actions on D-Day, though he was badly wounded. After years away from sport and a society life shaped by duty, Virginia divorced in 1952 and quietly returned to competition.
In 1953 she joined the Hull Flyers, helping them qualify for Senior Gridball
Claudine Stein
Centre {Rated 0}
Age 31 {19/05/22}
Born: Kingston-Upon-Hull
Apps: 0
Goals: 0
One of three sisters all involved with the Flyers, Claudine was a Spanish dancer before joining the Flyers in 1952.
Nancie Birkby
Shooter {Rated 0}
Age 21 {22/02/32}
Born: Churchwell, Leeds
Apps: 0
Goals: 0
Birkby was a promising Tennis player in her youth but was convinced to switch codes after failing to make the line up for the 1952 Wimbledon Championships.