Pat Tunney
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| Full name | Patrick Tunney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patrick "Pat" Tunney was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing at representative level for England, and at club level for Salford, as a Hooker, i.e. number 9, during the era of contested scrums.[1]
International honours
Pat Tunney won a cap playing Hooker for England in the 3-9 defeat by Other Nationalities at Central Park, Wigan on Tuesday 5 April 1904, in the first ever international rugby league match.[2]
References
- ^ "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Fagan, Sean. "The First International Rugby League Match". rl1895.com. Retrieved 14 December 2014.[dead link]