Nat Bentham
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Full name | Nathan Bentham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nathan "Nat" Bentham was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Liverpool Stanley, Halifax, and Warrington, as a hooker, i.e. number 9, during the era of contested scrums.
International honours
Nat Bentham won caps for England while at Wigan Highfield in 1928 against Wales (2 matches), while at Halifax in 1929 against Other Nationalities, while at Warrington in 1930 against Other Nationalities (2 matches),[1] and won caps for Great Britain while at Wigan Highfield in 1928 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches), while at Halifax in 1929-30 against Australia (2 matches), and while at Warrington against Australia (2 matches).[2]
Bentham was the only Great Britain player to retain his position (hooker) for every game of the unprecedented 4-test Ashes series of the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.
References
- ^ "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.