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William "Bill" McAlone is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played for Whitehaven. He played in a forward position. McAlone scored 23 tries in 327 games for Whitehaven. [1]
Bill McAlone represented Cumberland 11 times.
Bill McAlone played left-prop, i.e. number 8, in Whitehaven's 14–11 victory over Australia in the 1956–57 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France match at the Recreation Ground, Whitehaven on Saturday 20 October 1956, in front of a crowd of 10,917. [2]
Bill McAlone is a Whitehaven Hall of Fame Inductee, in 2006 he became the third player to be inducted. [3]
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