Redhead with Fire in His Boots: My Life in Rugby - Softcover

Peter Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781551820 ISBN 13: 9781781551820

Publisher: Fonthill Media, 2014

Synopsis

Wartime and the scholarship to Grammar Schools allowed access to Rugby Union, an amateur game played by gentlemen in Rugby Clubs like Liverpool and Blackheath. Since the schism with Rugby League in 1895 the antipathy between the two codes was stark. My story opened the door for hundreds of boys from Lancashire to play for England Schools. However, the suggestion that I might go to Rugby League was enough to prevent selection for England. The story of how this happened, and my subsequent success as a semi professional rugby player, reaches its climax in Championships and Challenge Cups with the great St Helens RL side of the 1960s. Running parallel to this story is the training necessary to become a teacher and head teacher, and those people who helped me on that journey. The final chapters tell of rugby stars of the 1960s who I played with or against and the subsequent joys and fellowships of past players associations. It is a unique view of social history from coalmine to classroom, 1940 to present.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Harvey was born in Scotland in 1940. He is the son of a Lancashire coal miner. Of Irish and Scottish descent he played for Lancashire and England Schools, Captaining both teams. Educated at The St Helens Catholic Grammar School (West Park), St Mary's College (Strawberry Hill) and Loughborough College of PE he is a teacher by profession. Gaining qualifications from four Universities, London, Leicester, Liverpool and Lancaster, he was a teacher from 1962 till he retired from his third Headship in 1997.Married to Ruth, also a teacher, they have three children Simon, Louise and Rachael.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781551820
• ISBN 13: 9781781551820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224