Cec Cooper

For the baseball player, see Cecil Cooper. For the Anglican bishop, see Cecil Cooper (bishop).

Cecil James Cooper (born 1926) is a retired professional rugby league footballer and coach of the 1950s. A New South Wales representative centre, he captained and later coached the Canterbury-Bankstown club of the New South Wales Rugby Football League.[1] He is the brother of Australian international Lionel Cooper and fellow Canterbury-Bankstown player Reg Cooper. In 1953, when captain of his club, he suffered a fractured spine.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Cec Cooper at thebulldogs.com.au
  2. ↑ "Cec Cooper has fractured spine". The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia). 1953-04-09. p. 7. Retrieved 2010-09-07.