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A dual-code rugby international is a rugby footballer who has played at the senior international level in both codes of rugby, 13-a-side rugby league and 15-a-side rugby union. Rugby league started as a breakaway version of rugby in Northern England in 1895 and in New Zealand and Australia in 1908, and consequently a number of early top-class ...
Pages in category "Dual-code rugby internationals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 279 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Frank Hadden, Scottish rugby player and coach, had trials with both Queens Park Rangers and Forfar Athletic, as well as being offered a contract by Raith Rovers. [9] Wesley Fofana, a France international rugby union player, grew up in the Paris region of France and trained as a youth with CFF Paris before switching to rugby union as a teenager.
Toggle Rugby union players who have represented two nations – cross-code converts subsection 4.1 Notes 5 Rugby union players who have represented two nations – different nation at junior level
Australian dual code rugby international Arthur Summons, who has been immortalised on the National Rugby League (NRL) winners trophy, has died, his former club said on Sunday. Summons, who played ...
John "Jack" Rhapps (15 July 1876 – 23 January 1950) [1] [2] was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Penygraig, and international rugby for Wales. Rhapps later "Went North", when he turned professional, joining rugby league team Salford , and along with Anthony Starks they became the World's first dual-code ...
David Watkins MBE (5 March 1942 – 3 September 2023) was a Welsh dual-code rugby international, having played both rugby union and rugby league football for both codes' national teams between 1963 and 1979. [1] [3] He captained the British and Irish Lions rugby union side, [2] and made six appearances for the Great Britain rugby league team.
James "Jim / Fritz / Jock" Gerard McLaren (born 28 June 1972) is a Scottish dual-code international rugby league and rugby union footballer. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for the Scotland national rugby league team, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and representative level rugby union (RU) for the Scotland national rugby union team, as a centre, and for ...