Andrew Broatch
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| Full name | Andrew Broatch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1942 Hawick, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fly-half | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Stand-off | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Alex Fiddes (uncle) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andrew "Drew" Broatch (born 8 April 1942) is a Scottish former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played invitational level rugby union for Barbarian F.C., and at club level Hawick YM RFC and Hawick RFC, as a fly-half and representative level rugby league for Other Nationalities and Commonwealth XIII, and at club level for Leeds, Bradford Northern, New Hunslet and York, as a centre, or stand-off.
Playing career
[edit | edit source]International honours
[edit | edit source]Drew Broatch represented Other Nationalities (RL) while at Leeds, he played stand-off in the 2–19 defeat by St. Helens at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Wednesday 27 January 1965, to mark the switching-on of new floodlights,[2] and represented Commonwealth XIII (RL) while at Leeds in 1965 against New Zealand at Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre, London on Wednesday 18 August 1965.[3]
County Cup Final appearances
[edit | edit source]Drew Broatch played at centre in Leeds' 2–18 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1964–65 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 31 October 1964.
Genealogical information
[edit | edit source]Drew Broatch is the nephew of the Scottish rugby union, rugby league footballer, and rugby league coach; Alex Fiddes.[4]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Hawick YM RFC – History[dead link]
- Hawick YM RFC – History
- Hawick RFC: history of the club – International players – books
- News has reached us this week that Drew Broatch has recently been hospitalized… (6 January 2018)
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- 1942 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Bradford Bulls players
- Hawick RFC players
- Hunslet R.L.F.C. players
- Leeds Rhinos players
- Other Nationalities rugby league team players
- Rugby league five-eighths
- Rugby league players from Hawick
- Rugby league wingers
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Rugby union players from Hawick
- Scottish rugby league players
- Scottish rugby union players
- York Wasps players
- Scottish rugby league biography stubs
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs