Andrew Broatch
{{short description|Scottish rugby footballer}}
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Andrew "Drew" Broatch (birth unknown) is a Scottish former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played invitational level rugby union (RU) for Barbarian F.C., and at club level Hawick YM RFC and Hawick RFC, as a fly-half and representative level rugby league (RL) for Other Nationalities and Commonwealth XIII, and at club level for Leeds, Bradford Northern, New Hunslet and York, as a {{rlp|ce}}, or {{rlp|so}}.
Playing career
=International honours=
Drew Broatch represented Other Nationalities (RL) while at Leeds, he played {{rlp|so}} in the 2–19 defeat by St. Helens at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Wednesday 27 January 1965, to mark the switching-on of new floodlights,{{cite book |last=Cook |first= H.B. |year=1965 |title=Programme – St. Helens versus Other Nationalities |publisher= St. Helens Rugby F.C. Ltd}} and represented Commonwealth XIII (RL) while at Leeds in 1965 against New Zealand at Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre, London on Wednesday 18 August 1965.{{cite web|url=http://www.totalrl.com/features/content.php?feat_id=233&featcat_id=32|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114200717/http://totalrl.com/features/content.php?feat_id=233&featcat_id=32|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 January 2010|title=…and win at Crystal Palace|publisher=rugbyleague.org|date=31 December 2008|access-date=1 January 2009}}
=County Cup Final appearances=
Drew Broatch played at {{rlp|ce}} in Leeds' 2–18 defeat by Wakefield Trinity in the 1964–65 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1964–65 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 31 October 1964.
Genealogical information
Drew Broatch is the nephew of the Scottish rugby union, rugby league footballer, and rugby league coach; Alex Fiddes.Drysdale, Neil (2011). Southern Comfort: The Story of Borders Rugby. Birlinn Ltd. {{ISBN|1-84158-997-7}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/search/?q=Broatch Search for "Broatch" at rugbyleagueproject.org]
- [http://www.freewebs.com/hawickym/historyinterplay.htm Hawick YM RFC – History]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
- [https://archive.today/20100000000000/http://www.freewebs.com/hawickym/historyinterplay.htm Hawick YM RFC – History]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180118010713/http://www.hawickrfc.co.uk/club/history.shtml Hawick RFC: history of the club – International players – books]
- [https://en-gb.facebook.com/Hawick-RFC-118458164449/posts News has reached us this week that Drew Broatch has recently been hospitalized… (6 January 2018)]
- {{cite book | last=Drysdale | first=N. | title=Southern Comfort: The Story of Borders Rugby | publisher=Birlinn | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-85790-097-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc-8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT93 | page=93}}
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Category:20th-century Scottish sportsmen
Category:Bradford Bulls players
Category:Hunslet R.L.F.C. players
Category:Other Nationalities rugby league team players
Category:Rugby league five-eighths
Category:Rugby league players from Hawick
Category:Rugby union fly-halves
Category:Rugby union players from Hawick
Category:Scottish rugby league players
Category:Scottish rugby union players
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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