David Rose (rugby)
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Full name | David M. Rose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jedburgh, Scotland | 20 February 1931||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David M. Rose is a Scottish rugby union and professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer of the 1950s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for Scotland, and at club level for Jed-Forest RFC, as a Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and at club level for Huddersfield, and Leeds, as a wing, i.e. number 2 or 5.
Rugby union
Rose won caps for Scotland national rugby union team while at Jed-Forest RFC in 1951-53 7-caps
Rugby league
Rose won caps for Great Britain (RL) while at Leeds in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup against Australia, France, New Zealand, and France. He played right wing, i.e. number 2, in all four of Great Britain's 1954 Rugby League World Cup matches, including Great Britain’s 16-12 victory over France in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup Final at Parc des Princes, Paris on 13 November 1954. Rose's rugby career was curtailed by a broken leg suffered after moving to Leeds.[1]
References
- ↑ "David Rose: 'Speaking truthfully, there was cash involved but it was also a challenge'". heraldscotland.com. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
External links
- Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
- Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
- International Statistics at scrum.com