Frank Sykes
Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | Frank Douglas Sykes | |||||
Born | Batley, England | 9 December 1927|||||
Playing information | ||||||
Rugby union | ||||||
Position | Wing | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Huddersfield | ||||||
Northampton | ||||||
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1950–60 | Yorkshire | 79 | ||||
1955–63 | England | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
1955 | British Lions | 0 | ||||
Rugby league | ||||||
Source: espnscrum.com |
Frank Douglas Sykes (9 December 1927[1]) born in Batley, is a rugby union footballer of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s playing at representative level for British Lions (non-Test matches), England, and Yorkshire,[2] and at club level for Huddersfield, and Northampton, as a Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14.
Playing career
International honours
Frank Sykes won caps for England in 1955 against France and Scotland, and in 1963 against New Zealand, and Australia.[3]
County honours
Frank Sykes played seventy-nine matches for Yorkshire, including sixty-six consecutive County Championship matches.[2]
References
- ↑ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- 1 2 Philip Gaunt (1969). "Yorkshire Rugby Union - Centenary 1869-1969 (Page-28)". Chadwick Studios/Frederick Duffield & Sons Ltd. ISBN n/a
- ↑ "Statistics at espnscrum.com". espnscrum.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
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