William Alexander | |
Birth Date: | 6 October 1905 |
Birth Place: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
Position: | Three-quarter |
Repyears1: | 1927 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
William Alexander was an English international rugby union player.
A Newcastle native, Alexander played his rugby for hometown club Northern, initially as a centre or stand-off.[1]
Alexander was experimented with on the wing in matches with Northumberland in 1926–27. He gained his solitary England cap as a left winger against France in Paris during the 1927 Five Nations and had a quiet game in a 0–3 loss.[2] [3]