Tom van Vollenhoven Rugby player

Tom van Vollenhoven (born 29 April 1935) is a South African former rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s. He enjoyed a prolific rugby league career with English club St. Helens after switching codes from rugby union in the 1950s. Vollenhoven became a rugby league sensation with the club in a career spanning ten seasons from the 1957 to the 1967–68 season. During this time he amassed a club record 392 tries in 408 appearances. This includes a record 62 in the 1958–59 Northern Rugby Football League season. In 2000, he was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame.

Personal facts

Birth dateApril 29, 1935
Birth place
South Africa national rugby union team , Bethlehem Free State

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Rugby player

former team
St Helens RLFC

Topical connections

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Tom van Vollenhoven on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://rugbyleaguehistory.co.uk/?page_id=24
  2. http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/k-van-vollenhoven/summary.html
  3. http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=16468