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Full name | J. Kenneth Gowers | |||||
Nickname | Ken | |||||
Born | October→December 1936 (age 75–76) Wigan district |
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Position | Fullback | |||||
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Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1954–1973 | Swinton | |||||
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Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1962–1962 | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1962–1966 | Great Britain | 14 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 42 |
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk |
J. Kenneth "Ken" Gowers (birth registered October→December 1936 (age 75–76) in Wigan district[1]) is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Swinton, playing at Fullback, i.e. number 1.
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Ken Gowers won a cap for England while at Swinton in 1962 against France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Swinton in 1962 against France, in 1963 against France, and Australia (3 matches), in 1964 against France (2 matches), in 1965 against New Zealand (2 matches), and in 1966 against France (2 matches), Australia and New Zealand (2 matches).[2] Gowers was the tourists' vice-captain on the 1966 Great Britain tour of Australasia.
Ken Gowers is the son of Great Britain (1928 Australasian non-Test playing Tourist), Lancashire, Rochdale Hornets (twice), and St. Helens rugby league Fullback, and Preston North End (Reserves in 1926) association football fullback, Walter Gowers, and the grandfather of the cricketer John Simpson.