Robert Ayres (rugby league)
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| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Ayres | |||||
| Nickname | Bob | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop, Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1938–≥1945 | Barrow | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1938–1945 | England | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Robert "Bob" Ayres is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s, who at representative level has played for England, and at club level for Barrow, playing at Prop, or Second-row, i.e. 8 or 10, or, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.
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[edit] International honours
Bob Ayres won caps for England while at Barrow in 1938 against Wales, and France, and in 1945 against Wales.[1]
[edit] Challenge Cup final appearances
Bob Ayres played right-Second-row, i.e. number 12 in Barrow's 4-7 defeat to Salford in the 1937–38 Challenge Cup final at Wembley on 7 May 1938.
[edit] References
- ^ "International Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 2008-12-31. http://www.englandrl.co.uk/international_stats.php?GBSearch=Ayres&EnSearch=Ayres&submit_x=7&submit_y=3&submit.x=7&submit.y=8. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
