In 1925, after acrimoniously firing manager Leslie Knighton, Norris hired Huddersfield Town's Herbert Chapman as his replacement.

The club left Fartown and moved to Huddersfield Town's home ground at Leeds Road in 1992.

Grimsby also reached the semi-final of the FA Cup in 1936, the game was played at Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road, but lost 1 – 0 to Arsenal, with the goal coming from Cliff Bastin five minutes before half time.

For the next season and the first five months of the 1986 – 87 season, Bradford City played home games at Leeds United's Elland Road, Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road and Bradford Northern's Odsal Stadium, while Valley Parade was rebuilt.

The first in England was by Huddersfield Town's Billy Smith. The world record holder is Dejan Petković with 8 goals.

Three of Morton ’ s crosses were converted by Huddersfield Town's Alex Jackson.

* 8 August 2006 – The 500, 000th goal in the history of English league football ( FA Premier League and Football League ) was scored by Huddersfield Town's Gary Taylor-Fletcher in their 3 – 0 victory over Rotherham United.

He joined Huddersfield in the summer of 1985 from Chelsea, and was named Town's player of the year in his first season.

The orchestra was responsible for the first Huddersfield performance of the Beethoven triple Concerto ( with ‘ local ’ soloists Margaret Binns, Pauline Dunn and Keith Swallow ).

When the West Riding County Council was formed in 1889, Huddersfield became a county borough, exempt from county council control.

Within this district were Barnsley, Batley, Bradford, Brighouse, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley, Leeds, Morley, Ossett, Pontefract, Pudsey, Rotherham, Sheffield, Todmorden ( partly in Lancashire until 1888 when it became wholly in Yorkshire where it remains to this day ) and Wakefield.

He spent his school summer holidays at the home of his Uncle Tom and Aunt Lizzie in Clayton, his own family having moved to Huddersfield when Henry ceased to be an executioner, and he became very close to his uncle.

He was then appointed principal of what later became Huddersfield New College in 1909, serving in that position until 1936.

He became a manager after he retired from playing in 1949, managing Carlisle United, Grimsby Town, Workington and Huddersfield Town, before accepting the job as team manager of Liverpool in December 1959.

As the football club grew, it became a useful recruiting tool for the Huddersfield Athletic Club.

After losing in the February 1974 general election, he became a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Huddersfield Polytechnic ( now the University of Huddersfield ) until 1979 when he returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for South Shields in Tyne and Wear, a seat he held until he deserted the constituency at the 2001 general election.

The ground was originally known as the St John's Ground, after Huddersfield St John's Cricket Club who became its original occupants in 1868, the ground had previously been owned by the proprietor of the George Hotel in Huddersfield.

The venue quickly became synonymous with Huddersfield RLFC.

However, in 2009 the venue became hosts to a new sport when it became the home of the Huddersfield Hawks American football team, who recorded their first win at the ground with a 20-9 victory over the Manchester Tyrants.

Arsenal went on to finish second in 1925 – 26, five points behind Chapman's old side Huddersfield Town, as they became the first club in England to manage three titles in a row.

In the late 20th century, after 27 years of campaigning and restoration by the Huddersfield Canal Society the canal was fully re-opened to navigation in 2001, when it again became one of three Pennine crossings, the others being the Rochdale and the Leeds and Liverpool ( both broad canals ).

On 16 February 2008, Lampard became the eighth Chelsea player to score 100 goals for the club in a 3 – 1 FA Cup fifth-round win over Huddersfield Town.

Richard later became steward for Thomas Thornhill, the absentee landlord of Fixby, a large estate near Huddersfield.

In his second season in charge Clark helped Huddersfield to secure a play-off spot and became the first manager to win three Manager of the Month award in a single season since Roberto Martinez in 2007 – 08.

It should not be confused with Huddersfield Technical College, which became Kirklees College in 2008.

It became a sixth form college when the two grammar schools, Huddersfield New College and Huddersfield High School, gradually merged from 1973.

* Huddersfield College of Technology-was the institution that became the Polytechnic in June 1970

It has recently been possible to establish beyond doubt a matter previously disputed – exactly when the orchestra became the ‘ Huddersfield Phil ’.

Portsmouth became the second English champions to fall through the Third Division trap door into the basement tier after Huddersfield Town.

* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

The first, unveiled by then Prime Minister Tony Blair stands outside Huddersfield railway station in St George's Square, Huddersfield.

Nevertheless, Sargent retained the large scale tradition in his four HMV recordings, the first in 1946 and three more in the 1950s and 1960s, all with the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her stage début, and first professional role, was as Sarah in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield in 1928.

through the English football league system from The Football League 1910 – 11 | 1910 – 11 to Football League One 2008 – 09 | 2008 – 09 when Huddersfield Town finished ninth in Football League OneIn 1910, just three years after being founded, Huddersfield entered the Football League for the first time.

On 28 November 2011, Huddersfield lost their first in 44 games to Charlton Athletic, losing 2 – 0.

Town first used a badge on its shirts for the 1920 FA Cup Final based on the local Huddersfield Corporation coat of arms.

In his first season he succeeded where Mortensen had failed, by guiding the club back to the top flight as runners-up behind Huddersfield Town.

In 1997 the Beautiful South headlined stadium concerts for the first and last time, in Huddersfield and at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London.

A year into service he was wounded and sent home to recover, first in Huddersfield then Seaford.

They play their home games at the Galpharm Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F. C .. Huddersfield is also one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league teams.

Harold Wagstaff was only fifteen years and one hundred and seventy-five days old when he played his first match for Huddersfield, against Bramley in November 1906.

In 1962, the league was split into East and West of the Pennines ; Huddersfield and Hull Kingston Rovers met at Headingley, Leeds in the first final of the Eastern Division Championship on Saturday 10 November 1962.

Reigning Champions Huddersfield were favourites to lift the Eastern Division title, especially as Rovers were missing five first choice players with injuries.

Huddersfield were the first ever champions of the newly-formed third division in 1991 / 92.

Ken ’ s first trophy came in 1997 at Old Trafford where Huddersfield beat Hull 18 – 0 in the Divisional Championship.

In 1962, the league was split into East and West of the Pennines ; Huddersfield and Hull Kingston Rovers met at Headingley, Leeds in the first final of the Eastern Division Championship on Saturday 10 November 1962.

Reigning champions, Huddersfield were favourites to lift the Eastern Division title, especially as Rovers were missing five first choice players with injuries.

After close-season signings and an overseas training camp, Rovers made a better than expected start to their first Super League campaign, winning their first two games-Wakefield Trinity Wildcats at home and Huddersfield Giants away.