Gary Cooper (rugby league)

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Gary Cooper
Personal information
Nickname Super Duper
Playing information
Position Fullback, Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1962–≥64 Featherstone Rovers
1967–71 Wakefield Trinity 136
Total 136 0 0 0 0
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1962–≥62 Great Britain 0
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
19xx–19xx York

Gary 'Super Duper' Cooper is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, and coach, playing at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Wakefield Trinity (Heritage #725), as at Fullback, or Centre, i.e. number 1, or, 3 or 5, and coaching at club level for York.

Playing career

International honours

Gary Cooper was selected for Great Britain while at Featherstone Rovers for the 1962 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.[1]

Rugby Football League Championship Final Appearances

Gary Cooper played Fullback in Wakefield Trinity’s 21-9 victory over St. Helens in the 1966-67 Rugby Football League Championship final replay at Station Road, Swinton on Wednesday 10 May 1967, and was man of the match winning the Harry Sunderland Trophy in the 17-10 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1967-68 Rugby Football League Championship final at Headingley Stadium on Saturday 4 May 1968.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Representative Players". featherstonerovers.net. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Hoole, Les (2004). Wakefield Trinity RLFC - FIFTY GREAT GAMES. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-429-9

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