Harry Dale (rugby league)
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Kingston upon Hull, England
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| Full name | Harry Dale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 1908 Kingston upon Hull, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 November 1970 (aged 62)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Stand-off, Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harry Dale (February 1908 – 15 November 1970), also known by the nicknames of "Squibber" (at school due to his short height) and later "Scrubber" (following a mishearing and misprinting of "Squibber"), was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Newtown ARLFC (in Kingston upon Hull) (some sources incorrectly state Strickland ARLFC[3]), Hull Kingston Rovers and Newcastle RLFC, as a stand-off or scrum-half.[4][5][6][7][8]
Harry Dale was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, he was a pupil at Buckingham Street School (now Buckingham Primary Academy), Kingston upon Hull, he worked as a stevedore at the Port of Hull, he sustained a serious head injury while working with a Royal Engineers bomb disposal unit during World War II, he experienced ill-health in later life and following several spells in hospital, he died aged 61–62 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.