Kevin Ashcroft

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Kevin Ashcroft
Playing information
Position Prop, Hooker
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
196?–6? Rochdale Hornets
196?–6? Dewsbury
196?–7? Leigh
197?–7? Warrington
197?–7? Salford
Total 0 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1968–74 Great Britain 6 1 0 0 3
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1975–77 Leigh
1980–82 Salford
1991–92 Leigh
Total 0 0 0 0
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk

Kevin Ashcroft is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s, and coach of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Rochdale Hornets, Dewsbury, Leigh, Warrington, and Salford, as a Prop, or Hooker, i.e. number 8 or 10, or, 9, during the era of contested scrums, and coaching at club level for Leigh (twice), and Salford. Ashcroft is a Warrington Wolves Hall of Fame inductee.[1]

Playing career

Ashcroft won caps for Great Britain while at Leigh in the 1968 Rugby League World Cup against Australia, in 1968 against France, in 1969 against France, in the 1970 Rugby League World Cup against France, and New Zealand, and in 1974 against New Zealand (sub).[2]

Ashcroft played Hooker in Warrington's 7-14 defeat to Widnes in the 1974-75 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 10 May 1975.

References

  1. ↑ "Hall of Fame at Wire2Wolves.com". wire2wolves.com. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012. 

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