Leslie Sheard
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leslie Sheard | |||||
| Nickname | Les | |||||
| Born | circa-1945 | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1969–1971 | Wakefield RFC | |||||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Fullback, Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1971–1971 | Castleford | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1972–1980 | Wakefield Trinity | 171 | 31 | 5 | 103 | |
| 1980–81 | York | 33 | 11 | |||
| 1981–1982 | Huddersfield | |||||
| Total | 213 | 42 | 6 | 0 | 105 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1975 | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1981–≥81 | Huddersfield | |||||
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Leslie "Les" Sheard is an English teacher, and rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s, and coach of the 1980s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Wakefield RFC,[1] and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for England, and at club level for Castleford, Wakefield Trinity (Heritage #777), York (captain), and Huddersfield, as a Fullback, or Centre, i.e. number 1, or, 2 or 5, and coaching club level rugby league (RL) for Huddersfield, as of 2009 he lives in Devon.[2]
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Playing career
International honours
Les Sheard won a cap for England (RL) while at Wakefield Trinity in 1975 against Wales.[3]
Challenge Cup final appearances
Les Sheard played Fullback in Wakefield Trinity's 3–12 defeat by Widnes in the 1979 Challenge Cup final during the 1978–79 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 5 May 1979.[4]
County Cup final appearances
Les Sheard played as an Interchange/Substitute, i.e. number 14, (replacing Fullback Geoffrey Wraith) in Wakefield Trinity's 2-7 defeat by Leeds in the 1973 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1973–74 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 20 October 1973, and played Fullback in the 13-16 defeat by Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1974 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1974–75 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 26 October 1974.
References
- ↑ Wakefield Rugby Football Club—1901–2001 A Centenary History. Written and compiled by David Ingall in 2001
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- ↑ Hoole, Les (2004). Wakefield Trinity RLFC – FIFTY GREAT GAMES. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-429-9
External links
- EngvarB from August 2013
- Use dmy dates from August 2013
- Infobox rugby league biography templates updated
- 1940s births
- Castleford Tigers players
- England national rugby league team players
- English rugby league coaches
- English rugby league players
- English rugby union players
- Huddersfield Giants coaches
- Huddersfield Giants players
- Living people
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Rugby league centres
- Rugby league fullbacks
- Wakefield RFC
- Wakefield Trinity Wildcats players
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- York Wasps players
