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Alvin Kirkland is an American former American football and rugby league player. Kirkland was a member of the "American All Stars" rugby league team [1] a team made up of American college football players that went on the 1953 American All Stars tour of Australia and New Zealand. None of them had played rugby league before the tour. [2] Kirkland returned to Australia in 1956, and played all regular season matches for the Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club in that year's New South Wales Rugby Football League season. [3]
References
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- ^ Campton, Nick (September 1, 2015). "USA Tomahawks: A brief history of American rugby league". news.com.au. News Corp Australia. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
- ^ Willacy, Gavin (December 23, 2013). "Will new rugby league clubs in the US and Canada pick up college footballers?". The Guardian. Retrieved April 30, 2022.