James Metcalfe (rugby)
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Personal information
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| Full name | James Metcalfe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1873 Cumberland, England |
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Playing information
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| Height | 5 ft 11 1⁄2 in (182 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 13 st 0 lb (83 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby union
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Rugby league
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| Position | Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James "Jimmy" D. Metcalfe (1873 — death unknown) born in Cumberland, was an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1890s, 1900s, and 1910s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Askam RUFC (now Askam ARLFC), Barnsley RUFC, and Featherstone RUFC (now Featherstone Rovers), and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (captain) (Heritage № 62), as a Fullback, i.e. number 1.
Jimmy Metcalfe was selected for Yorkshire (RU) whilst at Featherstone RUFC during the 1896-7 season, and was selected for Yorkshire County XIII (RL) whilst at Wakefield Trinity during the 1897-8 and 1898-9 seasons.
Jimmy Metcalfe played Fullback, and scored the conversion in Wakefield Trinity's 17-0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1909 Challenge Cup Final during the 1908–09 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Tuesday 20 April 1909, in front of a crowd of 23,587.
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