John Scholfield | |
Full Name: | John Arthur Scholfield |
Birth Date: | 6 April 1888 |
Birth Place: | Lytham St Annes, England |
Death Place: | Barnstaple, England |
School: | Sedbergh School |
University: | University of Cambridge |
Position: | Centre |
Repyears1: | 1911 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 3 |
John Arthur Scholfield (6 April 1888 – 14 September 1967) was an English international rugby union player.[1]
Scholfield was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and attended Sedbergh School.[2]
A Cambridge rugby blue, Scholfield played locally for the Preston Grasshoppers and was capped for England as a centre three-quarter against Wales at Swansea in 1911.[3]
Scholfield was also a Lancashire Second XI cricketer and competed at the English Amateur Golf Championships, as did two brothers.[2]
In World War I, Scholfield served with the 6/7th Battalions of the Manchester Regiment and was held as a prisoner of war for the last nine months of the conflict.[2]