Steve Nash (rugby league)

Steve Nash (born (1949-04-07)7 April 1949) is an English Rugby League World Cup winning footballer of the 1970s, and 1980s, and coach of the 1980s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (Heritage № 474), and Salford, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, and coaching at club level for Mansfield Marksman. Nash won 24 Great Britain caps altogether and also played 7 games for the England team.

During the 1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season Steve Nash played at half back and scored a try in Featherstone Rovers' 9-12 loss against Hull F.C. in the 1969 Yorkshire Cup Final at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 20 September 1969. In 1971, while playing for Featherstone, Nash played his first matches for the Great Britain Lions against France, and New Zealand, and in 1972 against France (2 matches). He played in the 1972 World Cup Final against Australia which was drawn 10-all, enabling Great Britain to claim the Cup. Steve Nash played Scrum-half/Halfback, and was voted man of the match winning the Lance Todd Trophy in the 33-14 victory over Bradford Northern in the 1973 Challenge Cup Final during the 1972–73 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 12 May 1973, in front of a crowd of 72,395, played Scrum-half/Halfback in the 9-24 defeat by Warrington in the 1974 Challenge Cup Final during the 1973–74 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 11 May 1974, in front of a crowd of 77,400. During the 1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Nash was selected to play for Great Britain at scrum half back in the first two Ashes Test matches against Australia. Nash continued to play for Great Britain in 1974 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches). Nash won caps for England while at Featherstone Rovers in the 1975 Rugby League World Cup against Wales, New Zealand, and Australia, and in 1975 against Papua New Guinea.