Percy Astle

Percy Astle, son of a newspaper editor, was a leading goalscorer with the crack Stockport team that dominated Cheshire lacrosse in the 1920s. They won the Iroquois Cup four times in the first eight finals after World War I. In 1926 they beat Buckhurst Hill 24-2 with Astle scoring two goals before receiving a broken nose in what was a rough game. It was the highest score in an Iroquois Cup match and stood as a record until 1979 when another Cheshire team, Cheadle, scored 26 against … Buckhurst Hill.

In addition to representing Great Britain at the 1928 Olympics, Astle won representative honours with Cheshire and The North on many occasions in the annual match against The South. He also served on the committee of the Stockport club. In 1930 Astle toured the United States with a team made up mostly of Oxford University players and they returned home having deprived Syracuse University of the Flannery Cup, which they had held for the previous seven years.