Garry Schofield
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Garry E. Schofield | |||||
| Born |
1 July 1965 Belle Isle, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Centre, Stand-off | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1983–87 | Hull F.C. | 122 | 107 | 199 | 2 | 828 |
| 1985–87 | Balmain Tigers | 46 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 134 |
| 1987–96 | Leeds | 251 | 147 | 64 | 30 | 746 |
| 1989 | Western Suburbs | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| 1996–98 | Huddersfield Giants | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 430 | 287 | 273 | 37 | 1731 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1984–95 | England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1984–94 | Great Britain | 46 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 149 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1998 | Huddersfield Giants | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 15 |
| 2011 | Barrow Raiders | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40 |
| Total | 18 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 22 | |
| Source: RLP England RL Stats GB RL Stats | ||||||
Garry E. Schofield OBE (born 1 July 1965 in Hunslet, Leeds) is an English retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s and is a member of the British Rugby League Hall of Fame, which comprises the greatest 21 Rugby League players this country has ever seen, having been inducted in November 2013.
At the time of his retirement he was the most-capped Great Britain player of all time along with Mick Sullivan, with 46 appearances. He also won three England caps. He won the 1990 Rugby League World Golden Boot Award as the greatest player on the planet, largely due to his exceptional performances in Great Britain's backs-against-the-wall Test-series win in New Zealand and his remarkable display as Great Britain beat Australia at Wembley 19–12. The award to Schofield was made retrospectively in 2011 by Rugby League World magazine. Schofield has since coached Barrow in Rugby League's Championship.
He is also an often-controversial media pundit. He is a regular columnist for the weekly League Express newspaper as well as for the Sunday version of the national newspaper the Daily Star and is also a regular on the Premier Sports TV show 'Rugby League Back Chat'.
During his début season Schofield was first selected to represent Great Britain against France in February 1984. He went on to be the 1983–84 Rugby Football League season's top try-scorer. After that he was selected as an 18-year-old to go on the 1984 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia.
Schofield played for Hull in the 1985 Challenge Cup final against Wigan. Also in 1985, he re-wrote the record books by scoring four tries for Great Britain as they beat New Zealand in the second Test series at Central Park, Wigan. The series ended 1–1, with the third game drawn.
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