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Name
  
Reg Parker


Role
  
Rugby league

Reg Parker (rugby league) Reg Parker Rugby league player who won the Challenge Cup with

Died
  
November 13, 2014, Grange-over-Sands, United Kingdom

Reg Parker (birth registered October→December 1927 – 13 November 2014 (aged 87)) birth registered in Ulverston district, Lancashire, was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, coached in the 1970s, and was an administrator of the 1980s, playing at representative level for England, and Lancashire, and at club level for Whitehouse Juniors ARLFC, Barrow, Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 645), and Blackpool Borough, as a prop, or second-row, i.e. number 8 or 10, or, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums, coaching at representative level for Great Britain, and chairman of the Rugby Football League for the 1984–85 Rugby Football League season.

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International honours

Parker won a cap for England while at Barrow in 1955 against Other Nationalities.

Challenge Cup Final appearances

Parker played right-second-row, i.e. number 12, in Barrow's 21-12 victory over Workington Town in the 1955 Challenge Cup Final during the 1954–55 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 30 April 1955, in front of a crowd of 66,513, and played right-prop, i.e. number 10, in the 7–9 defeat by Leeds in the 1957 Challenge Cup Final during the 1956–57 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 11 May 1957, in front of a crowd of 76,318.

County Cup Final appearances

Parker played right-second-row, i.e. number 12, and scored a try in Barrow's 12–2 victory over Oldham in the 1954 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1954–55 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 23 October 1954.

Club career

Parker made his début for Barrow against Belle Vue Rangers in 1948, he was transferred in 1958 for £800 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £38,470 in 2013), and made his début for Wakefield Trinity playing Second-row (replacing an injured Ken Traill) in the 17–12 victory over St. Helens at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 1 February 1958, also making their début in that match were Geoffrey Oakes, and Harold Poynton, due to the difficulties in travelling from Grange-over-Sands to Wakefield, at the end of the 1957–58 season he was transferred to Blackpool Borough, where he later became a director..

International honours

Parker was Great Britain's manager for the 1974 tour of Australia and New Zealand, and the 1977 World Cup.

Genelogical information

Reg Parker's marriage to Shirley (née Cummock birth registered July→September 1930 (age 86–87) in Barton-upon-Irwell district) was registered during October→December 1949 in Ulverston district. They had children; Karen S. Parker (birth registered January→March 1953 (age 63–64) in Ulverston district), and Simon L. Parker (birth registered October→December 1956 (age 60–61) in Ulverston district).

He died at Cartmel Grange Care Home, Grange-over-Sands, his funeral service took place at St Paul's Parish Church, Grange-over-Sands, at 1 pm on Tuesday 25 November 2014, followed by a reception at the Netherwood Hotel [1]

References

Reg Parker (rugby league) Wikipedia