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Herbert was a member of this Warrington Schoolboys team who won the Lancashire Schools trophy in 1947-48. Herbert and Mather, the boy next to him in the photo, both played for Lancashire Schools. The boy named Orange was Joe Orange. It would be helpful for documenting purposes to get all the first names of the boys in the picture and to find out if any of the players are still with us. Historian Neil Ormston has calculated that when Herbert made his Wire debut aged 18 years and nine days he was the youngest to play for Warrington at that point. ....
Ron Herbert in his later years and as a Warrington Wolves player in the 1950s A HOMEGROWN Warrington Wolves centre and great-grandfather has died three months shy of his 65th wedding anniversary. Penketh resident and former Capper Neill and Laporte employee Ron Herbert, who featured over 40 times across eight seasons for The Wire alongside the likes of Brian Bevan and Gerry Helme in the 1950s, died on Good Friday at the Countess of Chester Hospital. He would have turned 88 this coming Monday. Ex-Crosfields amateur Ron, a former pupil of Bolton Council and Boteler Grammar schools in Latchford, attracted attention from Warrington RLFC because of his blistering speed. ....