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Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Championship. Featherstone is a former coal mining town with a population of around 16,000 and Rovers are one of the last "small town teams" which were common in rugby league in the early 20th century. The club has produced many junior players who have gone on to play for Super League clubs. Their local rivals are Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, and in the Championship, Halifax.
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Steve Nash is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s. A Great Britain and England national representative and scrum-half, he played his club rugby for Featherstone Rovers, winning a Challenge Cup title with them and being one of the inaugural inductees into the club's hall of fame. He also played for the Salford club and at representative level for Yorkshire. Nash later coached the Mansfield Marksman club for a season in 1989.
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Christopher Burton is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and Yorkshire, and at club level for Leeds, Huddersfield, Hull Kingston Rovers and Featherstone Rovers, as a second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12.
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Paul P. Coventry is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Fryston A.R.L.F.C., the Featherstone Rovers, and Wakefield Trinity, as a wing, centre, or stand-off, i.e. number 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or 6, he was previously the chairman of the Featherstone Rovers, and as of 2013 is the stadium co-ordinator at Post Office Road, Featherstone.
John Newlove is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Ackworth ARLFC, the Featherstone Rovers (captain), and Hull F.C., as a wing, centre, or stand-off, i.e. number 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or 6.
Kenneth Kellett was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Fryston ARLFC and Featherstone Rovers, as a wing, i.e. number 2 or 5.
John Gilbert is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Widnes, as a wing, or centre, i.e. number 2 or 5, or, 3 or 4.
Paul Lyman is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, and Hull Kingston Rovers, as a second-row, or loose forward, i.e. number 11 or 12, or 13, during the era of contested scrums.
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- ↑ Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
- ↑ Bailey, Ron (20 September 2001). Images of Sport - Featherstone Rovers Rugby League Football Club. The History Press. ISBN 0752422952