Ian Orum
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| Born | 15 August 1955 Buckrose, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 June 2020 (aged 64)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby league | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Stand-off, Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Orum (15 August 1955 – 24 June 2020) was an English rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played representative level rugby union England (Under-23s), and at club level for Bridlington RUFC and Roundhay RFC, as a scrum-half, and club level rugby league for Castleford, as a stand-off or scrum-half.[4][5][6]
Born in Buckrose, East Riding of Yorkshire,[7] Orum was educated at Bridlington School, and later attended the College of Technology at South Shields.[8]