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Full name | John Clifford Hill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Clifford "Cliff" Hill is a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, and 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain and Lancashire, and at club level for Wigan and Oldham, as a stand-off/five-eighth, i.e. number 6.
Cliff Hill won a cap for Great Britain while at Wigan in 1966 against France.
Cliff Hill played in Wigan's victory in the Lancashire County Cup during the 1969–70 season
Cliff Hill played stand-off/five-eighth in Wigan's 20-16 victory over Hunslet in the 1965 Challenge Cup Final during the 1964–65 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 8 May 1965, in front of a crowd of 89,016, and played as an interchange/substitute (replacing Fullback Colin Tyrer, and became the first ever Interchange/Substitute to play in a Challenge Cup Final) in Wigan's 2-7 defeat by Castleford in the 1970 Challenge Cup Final during the 1969–70 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 9 May 1970, in front of a crowd of 95,255.