Chris Rudd (born 17 December 1969) is an English former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who usually played as a . He played for

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( Heritage No. 883) at club level between 1988 and 1998, and also represented

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...

and

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Under-21's.

Career

Rudd started his career with amateur club Kells, and played against

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

in the

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

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. He signed for

later that year, and spent ten years with the club, making 169 appearances between 1988 and 1998. Rudd played for

in the 10–42 defeat against

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during the

1990 Kangaroo tour The 1990 Kangaroo Tour was the seventeenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship reasons) travelled to Europe and played eighteen matches against British and French club an ...

. In 1991, he played twice for

under-21s against

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rudd, Chris 1969 births Living people Cumbria rugby league team players English rugby league players Great Britain under-21 national rugby league team players Place of birth missing (living people) Rugby league centres Rugby league fullbacks Rugby league players from Cumbria Rugby league wingers Warrington Wolves players