Trevor Foster
| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Trevor John French Foster | |||||
| Born |
3 December 1914 Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales |
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| Died | 2 April 2005 (aged 90) Bradford, West Yorkshire, England |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Flanker | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1937–38 | Newport | 35 | 12 | |||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1938–55 | Bradford Northern | 432 | 130 | 1 | 0 | 392 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1939–51 | Wales | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| 1946–48 | Great Britain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1960–61 | Bradford Northern | |||||
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Trevor John French Foster MBE (3 December 1914 — 2 April 2005) was a Welsh rugby footballer and coach. He played rugby union for Newport and rugby league for Bradford Northern. Trevor Foster was a Sergeant Physical Training Instructor in the British Army during World War II.
Trevor Foster was born on 3 December 1914 in Newport, Monmouthshire, but is best known for his association with the Bradford Northern rugby league club having joined them as a player in 1938 for £400 from Newport RFC, his home town's rugby union club.
He made a name for himself playing for Newport Schoolboys and Pill Harriers as a teenager, before joining Newport. He was also chosen to play for invitational team Crawshays.
In all he played 428 games for Bradford Northern, usually as a second row forward and occasionally a loose forward. During this time he scored 140 tries (an incredible return for a forward) including 24 in the 1947-48 season and 6 in 1 game.(It could have been 7 but the ball was knocked from his hands as he crossed the line.) Trevor was the key forward of an outstanding Bradford side in the post war period which won the Rugby League Challenge Cup in 1947 and 1949 with Trevor scoring in both games. The Northern side at this time had some great Welsh players including mercurial stand-off Willie Davies, winger's Des Case & Alan Edwards and of course Frank Whitcombe at prop forward.
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