| Ogden's Cigarette card featuring Ernest Pollard | ||||||
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ernest Pollard | |||||
| Nickname | Ernie | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Stand-off/Five-eighth | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1932–≥1932 | Wakefield Trinity | |||||
| ≤1938–1938 | Bradford Northern | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1932–1932 | England | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1932–1932 | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Ernest "Ernie" Pollard is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, and Bradford Northern, playing at Stand-off/Five-eighth, i.e. number 6. Ernie Pollard's career came to a halt in October 1938 when he suffered a severe knee injury.[1]
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Ernie Pollard won caps for England while at Wakefield Trinity in 1932 against Wales (2 matches), and won caps for Great Britain while at Wakefield Trinity in 1932 against Australia (2 matches).[2]
Ernie Pollard is the father of the Wakefield RFC player of 1956 to '58, Anthony Pollard, the brother of the Great Britain, and Wakefield Trinity Fullback, Charles Pollard, and the uncle of the Great Britain, England, and Dewsbury Wing of the 1940s and '50s, Roy Pollard.