| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | David R. Bolton | |||||
| Born | April→June 1937 (age 74–75) Wigan district, England |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Fullback / The halves | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1954–64 | Wigan | 300 | 127 | 4 | 0 | 386 |
| 1965–70 | Balmain | 78 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 71 |
| 1968–69 | Blackpool Borough | |||||
| Total | 378 | 132 | 11 | 21 | 457 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1958–63 | Great Britain | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1973–74 | Parramatta Eels | |||||
| Source: [1], [2] | ||||||
David "Dave" R. Bolton (birth registered April→June 1937 (age 74–75) in Wigan district[1]) is an English former rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s who later became a coach in the NSWRFL premiership. An international representative for Great Britain, whose usual position was in the halves, Bolton is one of a handful of Britons to win championships both in his home country and in Australia.
Bolton played 300 games for Wigan from 1954 to 1964, featuring in the club's 1960 Championship Final win. He then played in Australia for the Balmain club from 1965 until 1970,[2] featuring in the 1969 season's Grand Final-winning team. This made him only the second Englishman to play in a grand final-winning team in Australia.
Bolton coached Parramatta in 1973 and '74. He was also assistant coach to Tim Sheens at Penrith in the mid-1980s
On 17 March 2005, Dave Bolton was inducted into the Balmain Tigers Hall of Fame.
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