William McAlone
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| Full name | William McAlone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Prop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William "Bill" McAlone is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played for Whitehaven. He played in a forward position. McAlone scored 23 tries in 327 games for Whitehaven.[1]
Playing career
[edit]County honours
[edit]Bill McAlone represented Cumberland 11 times.
Notable tour matches
[edit]Bill McAlone played at prop in Whitehaven's 14–11 victory over Australia in the 1956–57 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France match at the Recreation Ground, Whitehaven on Saturday 20 October 1956, in front of a crowd of 10,917.[2]
Honoured at Whitehaven
[edit]Bill McAlone is a Whitehaven Hall of Fame Inductee, in 2006 he became the third player to be inducted.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Irving, Alan. "Bill remembered as the colossus of Haven RL". BramptonLocal. Archived from the original on 4 May 1995. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
- ^ "When Haven beat the Aussies". totalrl.com. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "The Immortals...and the Hall of Fame". Whitehaven Rugby League. Retrieved 9 June 2011.