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Hulls new player, Wilson Hall arrives in Hull
Hulls new half-back Wilson Hall arrived at paragon station on Monday evening. As a schoolboy, Hall played football in a country town team in North Island, but later represented Auckland in South Island for four seasons.
Although from first playing junior grade football to winning representative honours Wilson Hall has been in the game for about eight seasons. The boyish looking New Zealand International says that his weight is about 11st 2lbs and is 5 feet 6 inches tall is a native of the Maori town of Ngaruawhia in the north island.
As a schoolboy, Hall played football in a country town team in North Island, but later represented Auckland in South Island for four seasons.
Although from first playing junior grade football to winning representative honours Wilson Hall has been in the game for about eight seasons.
His highest honours, of course being won when he was chosen to represent New Zealand against Australia and again when he was chosen to represent the All Blacks in last seasons tour in England, in addition to which he played half-back for south Auckland for a couple of seasons.
Hall was a star of the New Zealand Hornby club which won their district championships in 1926 and 1927. Given the all clear to play for Hull FC and as a professional, his registration in New Zealand are classed as an amateurs player.
A press comment referring to Wilson Hall, behind the scrum he need a lot of watching a very clever exponent of rugby league football. He is equally brilliant as a half-back or five-eighths. As elusive as a lizard and adapt at making openings, he is tabloid of energy plus guile and ruggedness.
Wilson Halls debut game against Castleford was a great success, his performance behind the scrum was a delight to watch, he had the ability to open out the game and had a big hand at most of the scoring and of course he had a capable partner in Caswell.
Despite producing good form in games there was a lot of changes in the halves and this effected the dynamics of the team, Wilson Hall was unhappy with the unsettling changes in the team and asked for a transfer, Hall was a big favourite with the supporters, his transfer to Castleford came as a big shock and Hull lost out on a very good half back, his playing record for Hull FC was 44 games and scored 2 tries.
Outside rugby employment for Wilson has yet to be decided, his employment in New Zealand is as a farm butcher, which means killing sheep for export. I think that Wilson Hall was unhappy in the way Hull has treated him which may have contributed to his leaving the club.
With a settled Castleford team Wilson was a great success and stayed for 4 seasons playing 175 games.
