Jack Kyle’s Last Rugby Game

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Jack Kyle’s Last Rugby Game

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Location

Belfast

Year

1961

Date

Production 08/04/1961

Length

04min 40sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

John ‘Jack’ Kyle was declared the Greatest Ever Irish Rugby Player by the Irish Rugby Football Union in 2002. Born and educated in Belfast, he played forty six times for Ireland and was part of the great Irish team who won the Five Nations Championship in 1948, 1949 and 1951, including the memorable accomplishment of the Grand Slam in 1948. He also went onto be selected for both the British Lions and the Barbarians. It is a measure of his love for the game that when his first class career came to an end he continued to play on at a lower level until he finally bowed out in this match in April 1961.

This final game was a friendly arranged between a select fifteen from his club side, North, against Cooke. From the action caught on camera there is much to suggest that he could still weave his magic. Not for nothing did the Belfast Telegraph once parody the Scarlet Pimpernel lyrics concluding by saying, ‘That paragon of pace and guile, that damned elusive Jackie Kyle.’

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Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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