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Bob Haigh is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

former rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

footballer of the 1960s and '70s, and coach of the 1970s who at representative level has played for Great Britain

Great Britain national rugby league team

The Great Britain national rugby league team represents the United Kingdom in rugby league football. Administered by the Rugby Football League , the team is nicknamed "The Lions" or "Great Britain Lions"....

, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats are a professional rugby league club that plays in the European Super League and is based in Wakefield. They achieved promotion in 1999 and have remained in the League since. They are known to their fans as Wakey, Trinity, Wildcats, or historically The Dreadnoughts...

, Leeds

Leeds Rhinos

Leeds Rhinos is an English professional rugby league football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The club won the 2011 Super League and became the most successful club in the Super League era, beating St Helens 32-16 on 8th October 2011. Formed in 1890, Leeds competes in Europe's Super League...

, and Bradford Northern

Bradford Bulls

Bradford Bulls is a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. They play in the European Super League and are currently joint 10th in the league....

, playing at , or /, i.e. number 11 or 12, or, 13, during the era of contested scrums.

International honours

Bob Haigh won caps for England while at Wakefield Trinity

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

in 1969 against Wales, and France, in 1970 against Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Wakefield Trinity

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

in the 1968 Rugby League World Cup

1968 Rugby League World Cup

- Final standings :-Final:The final had been billed a 'debacle' following Great Britain's inexplicable loss to France in Auckland, leaving them to contest the final despite being beaten by Australia seven tries to none two days prior....

against Australia, and France, while at Leeds

Leeds Rhinos

in the 1970 Rugby League World Cup

1970 Rugby League World Cup

The fifth Rugby League World Cup was held in Great Britain in 1970. Britain, fresh from defeating Australia in the Ashes, were hot favourites, and won all three of their group stage games. All the other nations lost two games each, and Australia qualified for the final largely on the back of an...

against New Zealand, and Australia, and in 1971 against France, and New Zealand.

Alongside fellow Wakefield Trinity

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

player, Ian Brooke

Ian Brooke

Ian Brooke is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s, and coach of the 1970s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity , and Bradford Northern, playing at , or , i.e...

, Bob Haigh was selected to play for Great Britain in the 1968 Rugby League World Cup

1968 Rugby League World Cup

in Australia and New Zealand.

Alongside fellow Leeds players, John Atkinson, Tony Fisher, Syd Hynes

Syd Hynes

Sydney "Syd" Hynes is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s, and coach of the 1970s and '80s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Leeds, playing at , i.e...

, Mick Shoebottom

Mick Shoebottom

Michael "Mick" D. "Shoey" Shoebottom was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s who at representative level played for Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Leeds, playing at , /, or /, i.e...

and Alan Smith

Alan Smith (rugby league)

M. Alan Smith is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Leeds, playing at , i.e...

, Bob Haigh was selected to play for Great Britain in the 1970 Rugby League World Cup

1970 Rugby League World Cup

in Great Britain.

Rugby Football League Championship Final Appearances

Bob Haigh played Right-, i.e. number 12, in Wakefield Trinity

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

's 21–9 victory over St. Helens in the 1966–67 Rugby Football League Championship final at Station Road, Swinton on 10 May 1967, and played Left-, i.e. number 11, in the 17–10 victory over Hull in the 1967–68 Rugby Football League Championship final at Headingley Stadium on 4 May 1968.

At 34 years, 190 days, Bob Haigh is oldest player to win the Harry Sunderland Trophy

Harry Sunderland Trophy

The Harry Sunderland Trophy is awarded to the Man-of-the-Match in the Super League Grand Final by the Rugby League Writers' Association. It is named after Harry Sunderland, who was an Australian rugby league football administrator in both Australia and the United Kingdom...

whilst playing for Bradford Northern

Bradford Bulls

Bradford Bulls is a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. They play in the European Super League and are currently joint 10th in the league....

v Widnes

Widnes Vikings

Widnes Vikings RLFC are an English professional rugby league club based in Widnes, Cheshire. They currently play in the Engage Super League, the top tier of European rugby league, after being awarded a license to compete in the top-flight Super League from 2012 onward...

in 1978 Championship final.

Career At Bradford Northern

Bob Haigh proved a bargain buy when he came to Odsal for the last three years of his playing career. Having spent most of his time at Wakefield or Leeds, Haigh played a significant part in a team that was building towards Championship honours. In his second season at Odsal, he helped Northern win the Premiership 17–8 against a great Widnes team, as well as the Yorkshire Cup against York, he scored 18 tries in 67 matches.

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