Carl Dooler
Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | Carl Dooler | |||||
Born | 30 March 1943 Lower Agbrigg district, England | |||||
Died | 29 July 2010 (aged 67) North Shields, England | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Position | Scrum-half/Halfback | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
≤1960–69 | Featherstone Rovers | 199 | 62 | |||
1969–69 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
1973 | York | |||||
1974 | Batley | |||||
Total | 217 | 63 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
1962–≤62 | Yorkshire | ≥2 | ||||
1966 | Great Britain | 0 | ||||
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk |
Carl Dooler (30 March 1943[1] — 29 July 2010 (aged 67)) birth registered in Lower Agbrigg district, was an English miner, rigger, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Yorkshire, and at club level for Sharlston Rovers ARLFC , Featherstone Rovers, Hull Kingston Rovers, York, and Batley, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, he died in North Shields.
Playing career
International honours
Carl Dooler represented Great Britain while at Featherstone Rovers on the 1966 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand in fifteen non-Test matches.[2]
County honours
Carl Dooler won caps for Yorkshire while at Featherstone Rovers in 1962 against Cumberland and Lancashire.
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Carl Dooler played Scrum-half/Halfback and won the Lance Todd Trophy in Featherstone Rovers' 17-12 victory over Barrow in the 1967 Challenge Cup final during the 1966–67 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 13 May 1967.
County Cup Final appearances
Carl Dooler played Scrum-half/Halfback and was sent off for tripping an opponent (later found not guilty by the disciplinary panel) in Featherstone Rovers' 12-25 defeat by Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1966 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1966–67 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 15 October 1966.[3]
Honoured at Featherstone Rovers
Carl Dooler is a Featherstone Rovers Hall of Fame inductee.
References
- ↑ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Carl Dooler: Scrum-half whose skills took Featherstone to victory in the 1967 Challenge Cup final". independent.co.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Yorkshire Cup 1966/67". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
External links
- Search for "Dooler" at rugbyleagueproject.org
- Carl Dooler: Scrum-half whose skills took Featherstone to victory in the 1967 Challenge Cup final
- Carl Dooler at marklaspalmas.blogspot.co.uk
- Obituary Carl Dooler - 1967 Lance Todd Trophy Winner