Dave Valentine

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Dave Valentine
Valentine with rugby league's World Cup, 1954
Full name David Donald Valentine
Date of birth 12 September 1926
Place of birth Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Date of death 14 August 1976(1976-08-14) (aged 49)
Rugby league career
Position Second-row, Loose forward/Lock
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1948–1954 Huddersfield
National teams
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1948–1954
1949-1955
1952
1954		 Great Britain
Other Nationalities
British Empire XIII
Combined Nationalities		 15
16
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Flanker
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1947 Scotland 2

David Donald Valentine (12 September 1926 – 14 August 1976)[1] was a Scottish representative rugby union and Rugby League World Cup winning footballer, a dual-code rugby international of the 1940s and '50s.

Rugby union

He made his rugby union international debut as a flanker for Scotland against Ireland in the 1947 Five Nations Championship and was also selected in the fixture that year against England.

His brother Alec Valentine also played for Scotland,[2] as did his other brother Rob, who later switched to rugby league.

Rugby league

Valentine's rugby league career was with the Huddersfield club where he played as a Loose forward/Lock. He played in all three Tests of the 1948-49 victorious Ashes series.

He played for the British Empire XIII versus New Zealand on Wednesday 23 January 1952 at Stamford Bridge and in the 2nd and 3rd Tests of the 1952 Ashes series.

Dave Valentine played Loose forward/Lock in Huddersfield's 15-10 victory over St. Helens in the 1952-53 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 25 April 1953.[3]

In 1954 Valentine was selected for Great Britain's tour of Australia playing in all three Tests. He was also the British squad captain for their successful 1954 Rugby League World Cup campaign, playing in all four matches and hoisting the Cup as the victorious skipper following Great Britain's 16-12 victory at Parc des Princes in the final over France.

Dave Valentine also represented Great Britain while at Huddersfield between 1952 and 1956 against France (1 non-Test match).[4]

All told he earned eleven Test caps in addition to the four World Cup appearances.

Dave Valentine's Testimonial match at Huddersfield took place in 1956.

His grandson also called Dave Valentine plays for amateur rugby league club Lindley Swifts.

Post-playing

Since 2004, the management of the Scotland national rugby league team have given the Dave Valentine Award to their player of the year.

Arriva Yorkshire honoured 13 rugby league footballers on Thursday 20 August 2009, at a ceremony at Wheldon Road, the home of the Castleford. A fleet of new buses were named after the 'Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team'. Members of the public nominated the best ever rugby league footballers to have played in West Yorkshire, supported by local rugby league journalists; James Deighton from BBC Leeds, and Tim Butcher, editor of Rugby League World. The 'Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team' is; Trevor Foster MBE, Neil Fox MBE, Albert Goldthorpe, Alan Hardisty, Stan Kielty, Lewis Jones, Roger Millward MBE, Malcolm Reilly, Garry Schofield, Keith Senior, David Topliss, Dave Valentine, and Adrian Vowles.[5]

References

  • Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  1. ↑ Griffiths, John (1987). The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. 12:20. ISBN 0-460-07003-7. 
  2. ↑ Bath, p138
  3. ↑ McCorquodale, London S.E (25 April 1953). The Rugby League Challenge Cup Competition - Final Tie - Huddersfield v St. Helens - Match Programme. Wembley Stadium Ltd. ISBN n/a
  4. ↑ Edgar, Harry (2007). Rugby League Journal Annual 2008 Page-110. Rugby League Journal Publishing. ISBN 0-9548355-3-0
  5. ↑ "Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team". Arriva Yorkshire. 2009-08-20. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 

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