| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Albert E. Fildes | |||||
| Nickname | Alec | |||||
| Born | England | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop, Second-row, Loose forward/Lock | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1927–≥1930 | St. Helens Recs | |||||
| ≤1932–≥1932 | St. Helens | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1927–1929 | England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926–1932 | Great Britain | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Albert 'Alec' E. Fildes is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s who at representative level played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for St. Helens Recs, and St. Helens, playing at Prop, Second-row, or Loose forward/Lock, i.e. number 8 or 10, 11 or 12, or 13, during the era of contested scrums.
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Albert 'Alec' Fildes won caps for England while at St. Helens Recs in 1927 against Wales, in 1929 against Other Nations, and won caps for Great Britain while at St. Helens Recs in 1926-27 against New Zealand (2 matches), in 1928 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches), in 1929-30 against Australia (3 matches), while at St. Helens in 1932 against Australia, and New Zealand (3 matches).[1]
Known as Albert on saints.org.uk & englandrl.co.uk, and Alec on rugbyleague.org & rugbyleagueproject.org, the use of Alec may be due to a confusion with Alexander "Alex" Erskine Fiddes a Scottish rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s for Hawick (RU) and Huddersfield (RL).