Nathan "Nat" Bentham (8 March 1900 - 1975) was an English 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 played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for

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and

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, and at club level for

Wigan Highfield Liverpool Stanley was a semi-professional rugby league club from Liverpool, England. It was renamed Liverpool City in 1951, but was otherwise unrelated to the original Liverpool club of the same name. The club's origins date back to 1880 when i ...

, Halifax and

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, as a .

Club career

Bentham started his career at

. Due to the club's financial problems, he was transferred to Halifax during November 1928. He was transferred to

for a fee of £400 during January 1930.

International honours

Nat Bentham won caps for

while at

in 1928 against Wales (2 matches), while at Halifax in 1929 against

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, while at

in 1930 against Other Nationalities (2 matches), and won caps for

while at

in 1928 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches), while at Halifax in 1929-30 against Australia (2 matches), and while at

against Australia (2 matches). Bentham was the only Great Britain player to retain his position () for every game of the unprecedented 4-test Ashes series of the

1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain The 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was the fourth Kangaroo tour, and took the Australia national rugby league team all around England and also into Wales. The tour featured the ninth Ashes series (rugby league), Ashes series which compr ...

References

External links

Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk
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