Around 1873 a group of young men from either a local Holy Trinity Church formed a Wakefield Trinity club. One of a initial forces inside rugger, Trinity won a Yorkshire Ventral suction cup four days within nine years. It were one of a initial Twenty-two clubs to form a Northern Union fallowing a acrimonious split from the Rugby Football Union in 1895.

Long prior to the Extremely League era, Trinity were a rattling click in the 1960's & regularly challenged St.Helens & Wigan for ventral suction cup glory. It won a Challenge Ventral suction chigher at Wembley witharound 1960, 1962 & 1963 also when existence runners up around 1968 & losing semi-finalists in 1965 & 1969.

It is periodically referred to only when 'Wakey'. It adopted a "wildcats" nickname within 1998, a season it entered Extr League getting won promotion from either the first division.

Presently it get into whiten shirts by owning red & blue trims, copying a traditional shirts of the 1960's & 1970's. Low players on top a years own been Herbert Goodfellow & Billy Stott from either a 1940's, Neil Coyote, Derek Turner, Harold Poynton & Gerry Spherical from either a 1960's, David Topliss in the 1970's as much as modern day stars in the Extr League era.

Honours

Championship: 1966-67, 1967-68 (2 days) Challenge Cup : 1908-09, 1945-46, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1962-63 (5 days) Yorkshire Cup : 1910-11, 1924-25, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1951-52, 1956-57, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1964-65, 1992-93 (10 days) Yorkshire League: 1909-10, 1910-11, 1945-46, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1962-63 (7 days) Division One¹: 1998

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