Neil Fox (rugby league)

Neil Fox (rugby league)
Neil Fox
Personal information
Born 4 May 1939 (1939-05-04) (age 72)
Sharlston, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Playing information
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 13 st 7 lb (85 kg)
Position Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1956–69 Wakefield Trinity 441 238 1442 0 3558
1969–70 Bradford Northern 27 4 11 0 34
1970–74 Wakefield Trinity 133 34 394 0 890
1974–75 Hull K. R. 59 16 212 2 470
1976 York 13 2 42 0 90
1976–77 Bramley 23 6 73 0 164
1977–78 Huddersfield 23 6 73 1 164
1978–79 Bradford Northern 43 8 74 1 171
Total 762 314 2321 4 5541
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
 ?–? Yorkshire 17 9 60 0 147
1962 England 1 1 3 0 9
1959–69 Great Britain 29 14 93 0 228

Neil Fox MBE (born 4 May 1939 in Sharlston,[1] West Yorkshire) is an English former rugby league footballer and player-coach of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. A goal-kicking Centre, he is one of the most prominent figures in the history of the sport because he holds the all-time points record, scoring 6,220 points during his career.[2] The brother of fellow rugby league players, Peter and Don Fox, Neil played for Yorkshire sides such as; Wakefield Trinity (twice), Bradford Northern (twice), Hull KR, York, Bramley and Huddersfield.

Neil Fox was selected for Yorkshire County XIII whilst at Wakefield Trinity during the 1958/59 and 1959/60 seasons.[3]

Neil Fox played Left-Centre, i.e. number 4, and scored twenty points (two tries and seven goals) in Wakefield Trinity’s 38-5 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1959–60 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on 14 May 1960, setting a new record for most points in a Challenge Cup Final. This feat was equalled by Iestyn Harris (1-try and 8-goals) in Leeds Rhinos' victory over the London Broncos in the 1999 Challenge Cup Final.

Neil Fox played Left-Centre, i.e. number 4, and scored two tries and two goals in Wakefield Trinity’s 16-10 victory over Huddersfield in the 1960–61 Yorkshire Cup final at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on 29 October 1960.[4]

Fox scored a try and three goals in the 12-6 victory over Huddersfield in the 1961–62 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on 12 May 1962, and was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for his man-of-the-match performance. He scored five goals in the 25-10 victory over Wigan in the 1962–63 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on 11 May 1963.[4]

Neil Fox played Left-Centre, i.e. number 4, and scored three goals in the 21-9 victory over St. Helens in the 1966-67 Rugby Football League Championship final at Station Road, Swinton on 10 May 1967, scored a try and two goals the 17-10 victory over Hull in the 1967-68 Rugby Football League Championship final at Headingley Stadium on 4 May 1968.[4]

Neil Fox and Alex Murphy are the only British rugby league footballers to have had two Testimonial matches. Neil Fox’s were both at Wakefield Trinity in 1966, and 1979. Alex Murphy’s were at St Helens in 1965, and at Warrington in 1976.

Circa-1968 Neil Fox owned a Turf accountant's business in Goldthorpe. He was player - coach of Underbank Rangers and achieved a Holliday Cup and promotion double in 1981/82.

Fox retired with the record for most points scored in Anglo-Australian test match history until overtaken by Mal Meninga in 1992.[5]

He was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame in 1989. On 30 August 2005 Fox, along with former rugby league greats Billy Boston and Mick Sullivan, opened the Rugby League Heritage Centre.

Arriva Yorkshire honoured 13 rugby league footballers on Thursday 20 August 2009, at a ceremony at The Jungle, the home of the Castleford Tigers. A fleet of new buses were named after the 'Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team'. Members of the public nominated the best ever rugby league footballers to have played in West Yorkshire, supported by local rugby league journalists; James Deighton from BBC Leeds, and Tim Butcher, editor of Rugby League World. The 'Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team' is; Trevor Foster MBE, Neil Fox MBE, Albert Goldthorpe, Alan Hardisty, Stan Kielty, Lewis Jones, Roger Millward MBE, Malcolm Reilly, Garry Schofield, Keith Senior, David Topliss, Dave Valentine, and Adrian Vowles.[6]

Sources

  1. ^ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2010. http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=177378848&d=bmd_1310461961. Retrieved 2011-01-01. 
  2. ^ "Rugby League Hall of Fame - Neil Fox". RLHallofFame.org.uk. 25 October 2007. http://www.rlhalloffame.org.uk/fox.htm. 
  3. ^ Lindley, John (1960). Dreadnoughts - A HISTORY OF Wakefield Trinity F. C. 1873 - 1960 [Page118]. John Lindley Son & Co Ltd. ISBN n/a
  4. ^ a b c Hoole, Les (2004). Wakefield Trinity RLFC - FIFTY GREAT GAMES. Breedon Books. ISBN 1 85983 429 9
  5. ^ Gallaway, Jack (2003). Origin: Rugby League's Greatest Contest 1980 - 2002. Australia: University of Queensland Press. pp. 177–78. ISBN 0 7022 3383 8. http://books.google.com/books?id=3nDbsx3Hk7QC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  6. ^ "Arriva Yorkshire Rugby League Dream Team". Arriva Yorkshire. 20 August 2009. http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/content.aspx?id=7044. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 

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