Karle Hammond
| Date of birth | 25 April 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Widnes, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Karle Hammond (born 25 April 1974) is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Widnes (two spells), and in the European Super League for St. Helens, the London Broncos, the Salford City Reds, and the Halifax Blue Sox, as a stand-off, scrum-half, hooker or loose forward.[1][2]
Background
Career
Hammond played as a stand-off/five-eighth in St. Helens 40-32 victory over the Bradford Bulls in the 1996 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 27 April 1996 in front of a crowd of 78,550.[3]
He was the top try-scorer of the 1996 Great Britain Lions tour of Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand.
Karle Hammond played stand-off/five-eighth in St. Helens' 16-25 defeat by Wigan in the 1995–96 Regal Trophy Final during the 1995–96 at Alfred McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield on Saturday 13 January 1996.[4]
References
- 1 2 "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Reds snap up Hammond". BBC. 2001-03-16. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ↑ "steveprescottfoundation.co.uk". Steve Prescott Stats. Steve Prescott Foundation. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
- ↑ "13th January 1996: St Helens 16 Wigan 25 (Regal Trophy Final)". wigan.rlfans.com. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
External links
- Profile at saints.org.uk
- (archived by web.archive.org) Statistics at slstats.org
- Hammond hammer blow for Wales