William "Bill" McAlone is a 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 played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played for

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. He played in a forward position. McAlone scored 23 tries in 327 games for Whitehaven.

Playing career

County honours

Bill McAlone represented

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11 times.

Notable tour matches

Bill McAlone played left-, i.e. number 8, in

's 14–11 victory over

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in the

1956–57 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France The 1956–57 Kangaroo tour was the ninth Kangaroo tour, in which the Australian national rugby league team travelled to Great Britain and France and played twenty-eight matches, including the Ashes series of three Test matches against Great Brit ...

match at the

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on Saturday 20 October 1956, in front of a crowd of 10,917.

Honoured at Whitehaven

Bill McAlone is a Whitehaven Hall of Fame Inductee, in 2006 he became the third player to be inducted.

References

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