Frank Sykes
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| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frank Douglas Sykes | |||||
| Born | 9 December 1927 Batley, England | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Huddersfield | ||||||
| Northampton | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1950–60 | Yorkshire | 79 | ||||
| 1955–63 | England | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1955 | British Lions | 0 | ||||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Source: espnscrum.com | ||||||
Frank Douglas Sykes (9 December 1927[1]) born in Batley, is a rugby union footballer of the 1940s, '50s and '60s playing at representative level for British Lions (non-Test matches), England, and Yorkshire,[2] and at club level for Huddersfield, and Northampton, as a Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14.
Playing career
International honours
Frank Sykes won caps for England in 1955 against France and Scotland, and in 1963 against New Zealand, and Australia.[3]
County honours
Frank Sykes played seventy-nine matches for Yorkshire, including sixty-six consecutive County Championship matches.[2]
References
- ↑ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Philip Gaunt (1969). "Yorkshire Rugby Union - Centenary 1869-1969 (Page-28)". Chadwick Studios/Frederick Duffield & Sons Ltd. ISBN n/a
- ↑ "Statistics at espnscrum.com". espnscrum.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
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