Early Career
Waring was never a noted rugby league player, he was actually more proficient at football - once having trials with Nottingham Forest. Waring began his career as a typewriter salesman in his home town of Dewsbury, but he swapped that career to use typewriters instead as he joined a local newspaper reporting on rugby league matches.
Alongside his fledging journalist career he ran the local Dewsbury Boys Rugby League Club, choosing to rename them the Black Knights, which foreshadowed how Super League clubs became branded some 60 years later. During World War II Waring managed Dewsbury RLFC as he was exempt from armed service due to an ear condition. Making use of men from the nearby military camp, he led the club to its second ever Challenge Cup victory in 1943 - the club's last ever success in the competition.
Waring travelled on the HMS Indomitable with the Great Britain national rugby league team on the first post-war tour of Australia. On returning home via the United States - he met Bob Hope who alerted Waring to success of televised sport is believed to have inspired him that television would crucial for the success of his beloved sport. Upon returning to the UK, he continued to push forward his case to the BBC having written to them as far back as 1931. After several rejections, he was given a chance to become a broadcaster when the Corporation began to cover the sport.
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