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HARRY STREET was a major figure in rugby league in the 1950s and 1960s - successful as a player on both sides of the Pennines and then highly influential as a coach.
Although he was born in the rugby league hotbed of Castleford, it was with St Helens that he first made his mark. They spotted him as an 18- year-old playing rugby union whilst stationed with the Army in Chepstow and signed him as a centre, which was his regular position until an accident at work at one of the town's many glassworks broke his foot and deprived him of some of his pace.
The switch to loose forward was the making of him. A transfer to Dewsbury, where his elder brother, Arthur, played second row, saw him selected for the Great Britain tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1950.
On that tour, he was preferred in all three Australian Tests to Bradford's Ken Traill, another great loose forward who died earlier this year, and...