James McLaren
| Full name | James Gerard McLaren | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 28 July 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Stirling, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 110 kg (17 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Stanislaus College, Bathurst | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Hawkesbury Agricultural College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Tom McLaren, brother | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Full back / Centre | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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1997 |
Canberra Raiders Wakefield Trinity Wildcats |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1997 | Scotland | 1 | () |
| Position(s) | Centre | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1996–1998 1998 1998–2000 2000–2002 2002–2004 2004–2006 |
Glasgow Warriors Caledonia Reds Bourgoin Glasgow Warriors Begles-Bordeaux Bayonne |
0 1 38 |
(0) (0) (72) |
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Correct as of 18 December 2012
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1999–2003 | Scotland | 30 | (30) |
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Correct as of 18 December 2012
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James "Jim / Fritz / Jock" Gerard McLaren (born 28 June 1972 in Stirling) is a Scottish dual-code international rugby league and rugby union footballer, playing representative level rugby league for the Scotland national rugby league team, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and playing representative level rugby union for the Scotland national rugby union team, as a centre and for Glasgow Warriors and Caledonia Reds.
He was the first player to be capped by Scotland in a Rugby League international before representing in a Rugby Union international.
James McLaren played rugby league in Australia for the Canberra Raiders, before returning to his hometown of Stirling to play rugby union for Stirling County. While with Stirling he was called up to the provincial rugby union sides Glasgow Warriors and Caledonia Reds.
Whilst playing for Stirling against Melrose, McLaren was given a 26-week ban by the Scottish Rugby Union for being found to have kicked Craig Chalmers in the head, in a ruck. Stirling County had claimed that slow-motion video evidence proved that while Chalmers had, indeed, been kicked, the act had not been deliberate. The SRU stated that it was their intent for a 26-week ban for kicking to the head to be mandatory. At the rugby union ban, McLaren once again took up rugby league.
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