Joe Stewart (rugby union) explained

Joe Stewart
Full Name:William Joseph Stewart
Birth Date:24 September 1900
Birth Place:Boghill, Coleraine, Ireland
Death Place:Stalmine, Lancashire, England
Occupation:Doctor
Position:Fullback
Repyears1:1922–29
Repcaps1:10
Reppoints1:0

William Joseph Stewart (24 September 1900 — 1 February 1959) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Raised in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Stewart attended Coleraine Academical Institution and studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast. He was a fullback, capped 10 times for Ireland through the 1920s. His career career included a period in England, where he played for the Preston Grasshoppers and Lancashire.[1]

Stewart, a doctor, worked in British India with the Indian Medical Service from 1933 until independence in 1947, then had a general practice for a number of years in the Lancashire district of Over Wyre.[2]

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  1. News: Doctor was 10 times on Ireland rugby team . . 4 February 1959.
  2. News: Doctor Dies Suddenly At Stalmine . . 2 February 1959.