Malcolm Dixon (rugby league)

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Name Malcolm Dixon Role Rugby league		Height 1.78 m

Malcolm "Mal" Dixon is an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (two periods) (Captain, and Vice-captain) (Heritage № 385), and York (two periods), as a prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums, and coaching at club level for York.

International honours

Mal Dixon won a cap for England while at Featherstone in 1970 against Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Featherstone in 1962 against France, and in 1964 against France.

County honours

Mal Dixon won a cap for Yorkshire while at Featherstone Rovers; during the 1960–61 season against Cumberland.

Challenge Cup Final appearances

Mal Dixon played right-prop, i.e. number 10, in Featherstone Rovers' 17-12 victory over Barrow in the 1967 Challenge Cup Final during the 1966–67 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 13 May 1967, in front of a crowd of 76,290.

County Cup Final appearances

Mal Dixon played right-prop, i.e. number 10, in Featherstone Rovers' 15-14 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1959 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1959–60 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 31 October 1959, played right-prop in the 0-10 defeat by Halifax in the 1963 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1963–64 season at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 2 November 1963, and played left-prop, i.e. number 8, in the 12-25 defeat by Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1966 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1966–67 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 15 October 1966.

Club career

Mal Dixon made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Saturday 28 September 1957, 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.