David Rose (rugby)
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Full name | David M. Rose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Jedburgh, Scotland | 20 February 1931||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David M. Rose (born 20 February 1931) is a Scottish former rugby union and World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. He played 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 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.[citation needed]
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.[2]
References
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "David Rose: 'Speaking truthfully, there was cash involved but it was also a challenge'". heraldscotland.com. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
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- 1931 births
- People from Jedburgh
- Scottish rugby union players
- Dual-code rugby internationals
- Great Britain national rugby league team players
- Huddersfield Giants players
- Jed-Forest RFC players
- Leeds Rhinos players
- Rugby league wingers
- Rugby union wings
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Scottish rugby league players
- Living people
- Sportspeople from the Scottish Borders