John Gray (sportsman)
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Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | John Denis Gray | |||||
Born | Meriden, Warwickshire, England |
9 October 1948 |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Rugby union | ||||||
Position | Hooker | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
19??–73 | Coventry R.F.C. | |||||
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1973 | England (7s) | |||||
Rugby league | ||||||
Position | Prop, Hooker, Second-row,Loose forward/Lock | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1973–75 | Wigan | 60 | 6 | 122 | 0 | 262 |
1975–77 | North Sydney | 44 | 5 | 112 | 0 | 259 |
1978–80 | Manly-Warringah | 50 | 4 | 68 | 0 | 148 |
1981–83 | North Sydney | 44 | 5 | 96 | 0 | 209 |
Total | 198 | 20 | 398 | 0 | 878 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1975 | England | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
1974 | Great Britain | 8 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 40 |
Source: RLP englandrl.co.uk Yesterday's Hero |
John Denis Gray (born 9 October 1948[1]) born in Meriden, Warwickshire, is an English cricketer, and rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, playing cricket for Warwickshire, and Marylebone Cricket Club, as a Left-hand bat, and Left-arm medium-fast bowler, playing representative rugby union (RU) for England (7s), and at club level for Coventry R.F.C., as a Hooker, i.e. number 2, and playing representative rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Wigan, North Sydney Bears (twice), and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, as a Prop, Hooker, Second-row, or Loose forward/Lock, i.e. number 8 or 10, 9, 11 or 12, or 13, during the era of contested scrums. John Gray was a pupil at Woodlands Comprehensive School, Coventry.
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Playing career
International honours
Gray represented England (RU) in the 1973 International Seven-A-Side Tournament, and won caps for England (RL) while at Wigan in 1975 against France, and Wales, in the 1975 Rugby League World Cup against France,[2] and won caps for Great Britain (RL) while at Wigan in 1974 against France (sub) (2 matches), Australia (2 matches), Australia (sub), and New Zealand (3 matches).[3]
County Cup final appearances
John Gray played Right-Prop, i.e. number 10, and scored 4-conversions in Wigan's 19-9 victory over Salford in the 1973 Lancashire Cup final during the 1973–74 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, on Saturday 13 October 1973.[4]
Club career
John Gray was one of the first players to introduce the now routine round-the-corner style of goal kicking to Australia, he won the 1976 Amco Cup 'superstar' prize for player of the competition, he was the 1982 Dally M Award winning Hooker, a series of broken forearms, and constant back pain ended his career in 1983.
Honoured at North Sydney Bears
John Gray was named on the bench in the North Sydney Bears Team of the Century.
References
External links
- EngvarB from August 2013
- Use dmy dates from August 2013
- Infobox rugby league biography templates updated
- 1948 births
- Coventry R.F.C. players
- England national rugby league team players
- England international rugby union players
- English cricketers
- English rugby league players
- English rugby union players
- Great Britain national rugby league team players
- Living people
- Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles players
- North Sydney Bears players
- Sportspeople from Coventry
- Sportspeople from Solihull
- People from Warwickshire (before 1974)
- People from Warwickshire
- Rugby league hookers
- Rugby league locks
- Rugby league props
- Rugby league second-rows
- Rugby union hookers
- Warwickshire cricketers
- Wigan Warriors players
- England international rugby sevens players