Lynn Hopkins
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| Full name | Lynn Hopkins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lynn Hopkins is a Welsh professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s playing at representative level for Wales, and Cumbria, and at club level for Workington Town, and Kent Invicta, as a Fullback, i.e. number 1.[1]
Playing career
International honours
Lynn Hopkins won a cap for Wales while at Workington Town in the 7-37 defeat by Australia at Ninian Park, Cardiff on Sunday 24 October 1982.[2]
County honours
Lynn Hopkins represented Cumbria.
Career Records
Lynn Hopkins holds Workington Town's record for the most goals in a season (186 in 1981/82), and the most points in a season (438 in 1981/82). He is one of less than twenty-five Welshmen to have scored more than 1000-points in their rugby league career.[3]
References
- ^ Williams, Graham; Lush, Peter; Farrar, David (2009). The British Rugby League Records Book. London League. pp. 108–114. ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6.
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Robert Gate (1988). "Gone North - Volume 2". R. E. Gate. ISBN 0-9511190-3-6