Peter Rowe (born 11 March 1947) is a Welsh

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and professional

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footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He played club level rugby union for

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, and representative level rugby league for

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, and at club level for

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Blackpool Borough Blackpool Borough was a rugby league club based in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, that played in the Rugby Football League from 1954 until 1993. The club moved to Wigan in 1987 and was renamed Springfield Borough; to Chorley in 1988 and wa ...

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...

and the

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, as a , or .

Background

Peter Rowe was born in

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, Wales on 11 March 1947.

Playing career

Club career

Rowe joined

from

club

in October 1966. Peter Rowe played in

's 7–4 victory over St. Helens in the 1968 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1968–69 season at

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on Tuesday 17 December 1968, and played left- in the 6–11 defeat by

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in the

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Final during the 1969–70 season at

on Tuesday 16 December 1969. In January 1976, Rowe was transferred from

for a fee of £3,000.

International honours

Peter Rowe won six caps for Wales rugby union at youth level while at Swansea, captaining the 1965/6 Wales youth team. In rugby league, he won 10

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s for

while at Wigan, Blackpool Borough, and Huddersfield, including while at Blackpool Borough in the

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against Australia, England, and Australia.

References

External links

Statistics at wigan.rlfans.comTeam – Past Players – R at swansearfc.co.ukProfile at swansearfc.co.uk
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