William "Nat" Asquith was a

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footballer who played for

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from September 1926. He introduced Arthur Atkinson to the sport when he suggested as they were going home from work at a coal pit that they should detour to watch Castleford training at their old ground. When Castleford became a professional club for the 1926–27 season, Asquith made his debut in their 4 September 1926 defeat by

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. A newspaper report of 1929 commented that he and Atkinson were "usually a strong confederacy on the Castleford right wing" while Robin Adair wrote a year later in the ''

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'' that he thought Asquith was "destined for higher honours". Asquith was hospitalised after the match against Featherstone Rovers on 25 December 1930, when he suffered a ruptured

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. He did not play again, nor had he been able to work at the time when his club arranged a benefit match for him against Halifax in April 1934.

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