Gary Cooper (rugby league)
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Super Duper | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Fullback, Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1962–≥64 | Featherstone Rovers | |||||
| 1967–71 | Wakefield Trinity | 136 | ||||
| Total | 136 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1962–≥62 | Great Britain | 0 | ||||
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 19xx–19xx | York | |||||
Gary 'Super Duper' Cooper is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, and coach, playing at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Wakefield Trinity (Heritage #725), as at Fullback, or Centre, i.e. number 1, or, 3 or 5, and coaching at club level for York.
Playing career
International honours
Gary Cooper was selected for Great Britain while at Featherstone Rovers for the 1962 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.[1]
Championship Final Appearances
Gary Cooper played Fullback in Wakefield Trinity’s 21-9 victory over St. Helens in the Championship final replay during the 1966–67 season at Station Road, Swinton on Wednesday 10 May 1967, and was man of the match winning the Harry Sunderland Trophy in the 17-10 victory over Hull F.C. in the Championship final during the 1967–68 season at Headingley Stadium on Saturday 4 May 1968.[2]
References
- ↑ "Representative Players". featherstonerovers.net. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ Hoole, Les (2004). Wakefield Trinity RLFC - FIFTY GREAT GAMES. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-429-9