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Harry Archer
English rugby union and rugby league player

Harry Archer

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English rugby union and rugby league player
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Gender
Male
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Place of birth
Cockermouth, Allerdale, Cumbria, North West England
Age
93 years
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Biography

Henry 'Harry' Archer (birth registered October→December 1932 (age 84–85)) birth registered in Cockermouth district, is an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s playing club level rugby union (RU) for Workington RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Cumberland, and at club level for Workington Town, and Whitehaven, as a Stand-off/Five-eighth, i.e. number 6.

Playing career

International honours

Harry Archer represented Great Britain (RL) while at Workington in non-Test matches on the 1958 tour of Australia, and New Zealand.

Four Workington players were selected for the 1958 tour; Harry Archer, Brian Edgar, Ike Southward, and Bill Wookey (later of Barrow).

County honours

Harry Archer represented Cumberland.

Challenge Cup final appearances

Harry Archer played Stand-off/Five-eighth in Workington Town's 9–13 defeat by Wigan in the 1958 Challenge Cup final during the 1957–58 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 10 May 1958. He was concussed within the first ten-minutes of the match by a stiff-arm tackle by Mick Sullivan and had to leave the playing field, and although he returned to the match, he cannot remember anything about the rest of the match.

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