Career Record for Featherstone
Appearances			Tries	Goals	Drop Goals	Points
Total	Start	Sub
163	163	0	4	0	0	12

The hooker for Featherstone Rovers’ very first senior match was a popular character by the name of Charlie Hepworth, known to fans and his team-mates as Pep. He played his junior rugby at Sharlston, and signed for Featherstone Rovers, then the biggest junior club in the district, at the end of World War One when competitive rugby started again. In his first season he shared the hooking duties with another Sharlston-born player Harry Dooler, but by the end of that first year the number nine jersey belonged to Pep. He held that position during our first four seasons as a senior club and he went on to make 163 first team appearances.

Every hooker worth his salt needs a couple of handy props to help him out in the front row battle against the opposition, and Pep was well blessed in the support he received from two Rovers stalwarts. In the early twenties Ernie Barraclough was a promising young open side prop and John Willie Higson was a wily veteran who packed down at blindside prop. It made for a formidable and highly consistent front row formation.

After an injury in 1926, Hepworth lost his place and played his last game in April 1929 in defeat at Bramley, and then retired.