Name Gary Cooper | Role Rugby league | |
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Gary 'Super Duper' Cooper is a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, and 1960s, and coach, playing at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (Captain) (Heritage № 396), and Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 725), as at fullback, or centre, i.e. number 1, or, 3 or 5, and coaching at club level for York.
Contents
- International honours
- Championship Final appearances
- Challenge Cup Final appearances
- Club career
- References
International honours
Gary Cooper was selected for Great Britain while at Featherstone Rovers for the 1962 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Championship Final appearances
Gary Cooper played fullback in Wakefield Trinity's 21-9 victory over St. Helens in the Championship Final replay during the 1966–67 season at Station Road, Swinton on Wednesday 10 May 1967, and was man of the match winning the Harry Sunderland Trophy in the 17-10 victory over Hull Kingston Rovers in the Championship Final during the 1967–68 season at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 4 May 1968.
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Gary Cooper played fullback in Wakefield Trinity's 10-11 defeat by Leeds in the 1968 Challenge Cup "Watersplash" Final during the 1967–68 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 11 May 1968, in front of a crowd of 87,100.
Club career
Gary Cooper made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Wednesday 20 August 1958, he appears to have scored no drop-goals (or field-goals as they are currently known in Australasia), but prior to the 1974–75 season all goals, whether; conversions, penalties, or drop-goals, scored 2-points, consequently prior to this date drop-goals were often not explicitly documented, therefore '0' drop-goals may indicate drop-goals not recorded, rather than no drop-goals scored.