James Dykes was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Birth name | James Carroll Dykes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 4 July 1901 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Partick, Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 July 1967 | (aged 65)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Nairn, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Andrew Dykes, brother John Dykes, uncle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby Union career
editAmateur career
editHe also played for Glasgow Academicals RFC.[1]
International career
editHe was capped twenty times for Scotland between 1922 and 1929[1][2]
He played five matches for the Barbarians from 1925 to 1928.[3]
Family
editHis brother Andrew was also capped for Scotland.[1]
He was the nephew of John Dykes, who was also capped for Scotland.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Bath, p138
- ^ "Scotland Player profile: Jimmy Dykes".
- ^ "Barbarians Player profile: J. C. Dykes".
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)