Frank Castle (rugby league)

For the Marvel Comics character known as Frank Castle, see Punisher.

Frank Castle
Personal information
Bornsecond ¼ 1924
Warwickshire, England
Died15 August 1999 (aged 75)[1]
Playing information
Rugby union
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1949–49 Coventry R.F.C.
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Warwickshire
Rugby league
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1948/49–48/49 Leigh 1 0 0 0 0
1949–60 Barrow 366 281 843
Total 367 281 0 0 843
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1951–53 England 5 6 0 0 18
1952–54 Great Britain 4 3 0 0 9
Source: [2]

Frank Castle (second ¼ 1924 – 15 August 1999) was an English Olympic Games sprint trialist, rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Warwickshire, and at club level for Coventry R.F.C., and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Leigh[3][4] and Barrow, as a wing.[2] Castle was inducted in to the Barrow Hall of Fame in 2019.[5]

  1. ^ "Frozen in Time". The Observer. 7 October 2001. p. D66.
  2. ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ^ "They Played For Leigh (Statistics) at leighrl.co.uk". leighrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Heritage Numbers at leighrl.co.uk". leighrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Barrow Raiders to honour seven club greats with Hall of Fame induction". The Mail. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2024.