Carl Dooler

Carl Dooler
Personal information
Full name Carl Dooler
Born 30 March 1943
Lower Agbrigg district, England
Died 29 July 2010 (aged 67)
North Shields, England
Playing information
Position Scrum-half/Halfback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1960–69 Featherstone Rovers 199 62
1969–69 Hull Kingston Rovers 18 1 3 0 9
1973 York
1974 Batley
Total 217 63 3 0 9
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1962–≤62 Yorkshire ≥2
1966 Great Britain 0
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk

Carl Dooler (30 March 1943[1] — 29 July 2010 (aged 67)) birth registered in Lower Agbrigg district, was an English miner, rigger, and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Yorkshire, and at club level for Sharlston Rovers ARLFC , Featherstone Rovers, Hull Kingston Rovers, York, and Batley, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, he died in North Shields.

Playing career

International honours

Carl Dooler represented Great Britain while at Featherstone Rovers on the 1966 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand in fifteen non-Test matches.[2]

County honours

Carl Dooler won caps for Yorkshire while at Featherstone Rovers in 1962 against Cumberland and Lancashire.

Challenge Cup Final appearances

Carl Dooler played Scrum-half/Halfback and won the Lance Todd Trophy 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.

County Cup Final appearances

Carl Dooler played Scrum-half/Halfback and was sent off for tripping an opponent (later found not guilty by the disciplinary panel) in Featherstone Rovers' 12-25 defeat by Hull Kingston Rovers in the 1966 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1966–67 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 15 October 1966.[3]

Honoured at Featherstone Rovers

Carl Dooler is a Featherstone Rovers Hall of Fame inductee.

References

  1. ↑ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Carl Dooler: Scrum-half whose skills took Featherstone to victory in the 1967 Challenge Cup final". independent.co.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Yorkshire Cup 1966/67". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

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