Charles Annable

Charles Annable

Ogden's Cigarette card featuring Charles Annable
Personal information
Full name	Charles Annable
Born	30 November 1904 Hemsworth, Yorkshire,[1]
Died	1957 (aged 52) Yorkshire, England
Playing information
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	10 st 11 lb (68 kg)
Position	Scrum-half
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1924–31 Featherstone Rovers 196 29 2 0 91 1931–33 Castleford 30 1 0 0 3 Total 226 30 2 0 94 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P ≤1929–≥29 Yorkshire 2

Charles "Charlie" Stuart Annable (30 November 1904 – 1957^[2]) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Castleford, as a scrum-half.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Charlie Annable was born in Hemsworth, Yorkshire, to Charles, a coal miner, and Jane Annable.^[8][1][9] He married Clara Rhodes on 4 February 1928.^[10] In 1939, he was working as a bus driver in Stanley, Yorkshire.^[11] He died in Yorkshire, aged 52.^[12]

Charlie Annable won two caps for Yorkshire while at the Featherstone Rovers; during the 1928–29 season against Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, and during the 1929–30 season against Australia.

Charlie Annable played in Castleford's victory in the Yorkshire League during the 1932–33 season.

Charles Annable played scrum-half in the Featherstone Rovers' 0-5 defeat by Leeds in the 1928 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1928–29 season at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 24 November 1928.

Charles Annable made his début for the Featherstone Rovers on Saturday 27 September 1924,^[13] he broke his clavicle in November 1927 which kept him out of Featherstone Rovers' run to the Championship Final during the 1927–28 season, in 1931 he was sold to Castleford for £400 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £66,750 in 2013),^[14] he appears to have scored no drop-goals (or field-goals as they are currently known in Australasia), but prior to the 1974–75 season all goals, whether; conversions, penalties, or drop-goals, scored 2-points, consequently prior to this date drop-goals were often not explicitly documented, therefore '0' drop-goals may indicate drop-goals not recorded, rather than no drop-goals scored. In addition, prior to the 1949–50 season, the archaic field-goal was also still a valid means of scoring points.

"C. Annable' Featherstone Rovers (Northern Rugby League.) "C. Annable has demonstrated to his club the value of local talent. He was born in Alverthorpe [sic] in Yorkshire, and as a youth he has time for development. He is an unorthodox worker of the scrum, for he is not merely content to get the ball but he kicks to touch to advantage, and at other times bursts round to receive a reverse pass. Though on the small side everything points to his receiving county honours."^[15]

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