Scott Franklin

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Scott Franklin
Rugby union career
Full name	Scott Franklin
Date of birth	(1980-08-23) August 23, 1980
Place of birth	Regina, Canada
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	115 kg (17 st 7 lb, 250 lb)
Playing career
Position	Prop
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Castaway Wanderers
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2007-2008 2008-2010	CA Brive<br/ >Cornish Pirates
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2007-2011	Canada	15	(0)

Scott Franklin (born 23 August 1980 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada), is a Canadian rugby union player who plays rugby for the Prairie Wolf Pack in Canada, and for the Canadian national team. Franklin is a prop.

Career

Before going into professional rugby, Franklin went to the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Saskatchewan. He has represented Canada in U-17, U-19 and U-23. He played club rugby with Castaway Wanderers RFC in British Columbia, before turning pro and moving to CA Brive in France in 2007. Franklin then spent two seasons with the Cornish Pirates from 2008-2010. He has 15 caps for the Canadian national team, the first one against the United States in June 2007. Franklin was part of Canada's squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

Scott Franklin has recently been selected as part of the "Canada Selects" team that will compete in the 2010 Americas Rugby Championship.

On July 8, 2011 Rugby Canada announced the Canadian 30-man squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup which included Franklin as one of the five props selected.

References

v t e Canada squad – 2011 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Buydens Carpenter Cudmore Dala Erichsen Franklin Hamilton Hotson Kleeberger Kyne Marshall O'Toole Riordan Sinclair Tiedemann Walsh

Backs	Evans Fairhurst Hearn Hirayama J. Mackenzie P. Mackenzie Monro Paris Pritchard Scholz Smith Trainor van der Merwe White

Coach	Crowley

v t e Canada squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Biddle Burak Carpenter Cudmore (injured) Franklin Jackson (rep) James Kleeberger D. Pletch M. Pletch Riordan Snow Stephen Tait Thiel Webb Yukes

Backs	Culpan Daypuck Fairhurst Hirayama Mensah-Coker Monro Pritchard Pyke Smith Spicer Trenkel van der Merwe Weingart Williams

Coach	Suggitt

Persondata
Name	Franklin, Scott
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian rugby union player
Date of birth	1980-08-23
Place of birth	Regina, Canada
Date of death
Place of death

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