Jeff Butterfield
| Full name | Jeffrey Butterfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 9 August 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Heckmondwike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 30 April 2004 (aged 74 years 265 days) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Wicken, Northants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Loughborough University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Centre | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1953–1959 1955 |
 EnglandBritish and Irish Lions |
28 4 |
Pts:15 12 |
Jeffrey Butterfield (9 August 1929, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire – 30 April 2004, Wicken, Northamptonshire) was an England, British and Irish Lions, Yorkshire, Cleckheaton RUFC, Northampton and Barbarians Rugby player and businessman.
Butterfield was educated at Whitcliffe Mount Grammar School, Cleckheaton and Loughborough College, where he took a BSc. in Physical Education in 1951. He later took up a teaching post at Wellingborough Grammar School in Northamptonshire, after which he became a science master at Worksop College.
Butterfield began his senior rugby career with Northampton Saints and played for them 227 times . In addition to his duties at Northampton he also played 54 times for Yorkshire and captained them in two County Championship finals, in 1953 and 1957. .
He is considered to have been one of the most gifted centres to have played Rugby for England and was capped 28 times and captained the team four times. He was first capped by land in 1953 against France; here he played with a fellow Northampton player Lew Cannell. Butterfield played for England for 6 years, including 28 successive matches – in his final season he was captain. Butterfield became England's most capped back, and on his watch, England won the Five Nations' Championship four times, the Triple Crown twice and a Grand Slam.
As well as playing for Northampton and England, Butterfield is celebrated for his play on the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa where he scored tries in three of the four test matches. He later toured with the Lions in New Zealand in 1959 but here he was plagued by an injury and was unable to play in any of the matches.
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