Challenge Cup Final appearances Mal Sampson played at and scored the first
try in
Wakefield Trinity's 25-10 victory over
Wigan in the
1963 Challenge Cup Final during the
1962–63 season at
Wembley Stadium,
London on Saturday 11 May 1963, in front of a crowd of 84,492.
Club career Mal Sampson signed for
Wakefield Trinity Juniors (under 17s) in 1956, and made his début for Wakefield Trinity in the 31-6 victory over
Huddersfield at
Belle Vue,
Wakefield in November 1959, his third game came in the 20-10 victory over the 1959 Australian
Kangaroo Tourists at Belle View, Wakefield. He had played 24 successive matches up to April 1960 when he was involved in a
car crash in which he suffered a badly
broken arm, he consequently missed the
1959–60 Challenge Cup Final (being replaced by
Leslie Chamberlain) and the possibility to play for
Great Britain in the
1960 Rugby League World Cup (Great Britain's World Cup s were;
Brian McTigue (
Wigan) and colleague
Jack Wilkinson (Wakefield Trinity), complications to the broken arm meant he eventually made his comeback some 2½ years later, in November 1962 against
Widnes at
Naughton Park,
Widnes, he finished the
1962–63 season with a
try in the Challenge Cup Final, and is still the only Wakefield Trinity
Forward to score a try at Wembley, he became Wakefield Trinity's first ever league
substitute against
Halifax, at
Thrum Hall,
Halifax in September 1964, he had a four-game loan period at
Hull F.C. during the
1965–66 season, his last match for Wakefield Trinity was against
York at
Belle View,
Wakefield in November 1966, after which he signed for
Bramley. ==Genealogical information==