{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Edward Scorfield | image = | caption = | full_name = Edward Scafe Scorfield | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|04|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Preston, Northumberland, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1965|12|11|1882|04|21|df=y}} | death_place = Mosman, Sydney, NSW, Australia | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Forward | repyears1 = 1910 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Edward Scafe Scorfield''' (21 April 1882 – 11 December 1965) was an English international rugby union player.
Scorfield was born in Preston, Northumberland, and attended Royal Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne.<ref name="ADB">{{cite web |last1=Coleman |first1=Peter |title=Edward Scafe Scorfield (1882–1965) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scorfield-edward-scafe-11639 |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography (ANU) |language=en}}</ref>
A forward, Scorfield played his rugby for Percy Park and represented Northumberland from 1910 to 1913. He gained an England cap during the 1910 Five Nations, featuring in a win over France at Paris.<ref>{{cite news |title=News of Ted Scorfield |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/798134887 |work=Sunday Sun |date=13 February 1955}}</ref>
Scorfield served with the 66th Field Company of the Royal Engineers in World War I, attaining the rank of sergeant. He received the Order of St. George and was twice mentioned in dispatches.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Rugby star dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/867515572 |work=Evening Sentinel |date=13 December 1965}}</ref>
Formerly a marine architect, Scorfield worked as a cartoonist for the ''Newcastle Weekly Chronicle'' after the war and moved to Sydney in 1925 to succeed Norman Lindsay as cartoonist at ''The Bulletin'', remaining in the role until 1961.<ref name="ADB"/>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|2104}}
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