# Jack Whitfield

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{{Infobox rugby biography
| name            = Jack Whitfield
| image           =
| caption         = 
| birth_name      = John James Whitfield
| birth_place     = [Newport](/source/Newport%2C_Wales),<ref>[http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=107461 Newport RFC player profiles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617042455/http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=107461 |date=2011-06-17 }}</ref> [Monmouthshire](/source/Monmouthshire_(historic))
| death_place     = [Newport](/source/Newport%2C_Wales), [Monmouthshire](/source/Monmouthshire_(historic))
| height          = 5 ft 11 in <ref name="Smith205">Smith (1980), pg 205.</ref>
| weight          = 13 st 8 lb
| position        = [Hooker](/source/Rugby_union_positions)
| amatyears1      = ?-1919
| amatyears2      = 1920-1926
| amatteam1       = [Pill Harriers RFC](/source/Pill_Harriers_RFC)
| amatteam2       = [Newport RFC](/source/Newport_RFC)
| amatteam3       = [Monmouthshire](/source/Monmouthshire_County_RFC)
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| repteam1        = [Wales](/source/Wales_national_rugby_union_team)<ref>[https://archive.today/20110526145431/http://www.wru.co.uk/12750_14256.php?player=26392&includeref=dynamic WRU player profiles]</ref>
| repyears1       = 1919&ndash;1924
| repcaps1        = 12
| reppoints1      = 15
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| occupation      = Fitter<br>publican
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1892|03|23|df=yes}}
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1927|12|26|1892|03|23|df=yes}} 
}}

'''Jack Whitfield''' (23 March 1892 – 26 December 1927) was a [Welsh](/source/Wales) international [rugby union](/source/rugby_union) hooker who played club rugby for [Newport](/source/Newport_RFC) and club rugby for [Monmouthshire](/source/Monmouthshire_County_RFC). He was an extremely powerful scrummager, but was not seen as skillful as the pre-war players produced by Wales.<ref name="Smith211">Smith (1980), pg 211.</ref>

==Rugby career==
As a fitter in the [Newport Docks](/source/Newport_Docks), local dock team [Pill Harriers](/source/Pill_Harriers_RFC) was a natural choice to take on the front row skills of Whitfield. The Harriers, although seen as a lower league team, provided many Welsh players, especially front row hardmen like Whitfield. In 1919 he was selected for the [Wales](/source/Wales_national_rugby_union_team) to face the touring New Zealand Services team. Over the next five years, now as a member of the Newport club, Whitfield was capped for Wales on 12 occasions and scored his first try on the 13 March 1920 against Ireland. In the [1922 Five Nations Championship](/source/1922_Five_Nations_Championship), Whitfield was the leading [try](/source/Try_(rugby)) scorer of the tournament with four tries one against England and France, and two against Ireland. In the [1924 Championship](/source/1924_Five_Nations_Championship), in a game against Scotland, Whitfield was given the captaincy for Wales. Wales lost the match heavily, with Scotland running in eight tries, it was Whitfield's only time as captain.

He died on Boxing Day 1927 at the [Royal Gwent Hospital](/source/Royal_Gwent_Hospital) after a [gastric ulcer](/source/gastric_ulcer) operation.

''International matches played''
''Wales''<ref name="Smith473">Smith (1980), pg 473.</ref>
* {{ru|ENG}} 1920, 1921, 1922
* {{ru|FRA}} 1920, 1922
* {{ru|IRE}} 1920, 1922, 1924
* {{ru|NZL}} New Zealand Services 1919
* {{ru|SCO}} 1920, 1922, 1924

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=David |author2=Williams, Gareth  |title=Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union |year=1980 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=0-7083-0766-3 }}

==References==
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Category:1892 births
Category:1927 deaths
Category:Welsh rugby union players
Category:Wales international rugby union players
Category:Rugby union hookers
Category:Wales rugby union captains
Category:Rugby union players from Newport, Wales
Category:Newport RFC players
Category:Monmouthshire County RFC players
Category:Pill Harriers RFC players
Category:20th-century Welsh sportsmen

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