21-429: Ledgard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jimmy Ledgard (1922-2007), English rugby player Samuel Ledgard (1874–1952), English entrepreneur Tony Ledgard (born 1971), Peruvian cyclist Walter Ledgard (1915-1999), Peruvian swimmer Walter Ledgard Jr. (born 1945), Peruvian swimmer See also [ edit ] Ledgard Bridge , crosses
42-432: A goal -kicking fullback , and coached at club level for Bradford Northern . He was transferred from Dewsbury to Leigh for a record fee of £2,650 during January 1948, (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £218,400 in 2013). Ledgard made 334 appearances for Leigh after joining the club from Dewsbury in 1948, scoring a record 1,043 goals for the club as well as 36 tries. He played for
63-690: A "county cap" to players. As of April 2021, 70 players have won 100 or more caps in Test cricket. Players still active at Test level are in bold type . In rugby union , 92 players have reached 100 international caps as of 27 October 2023. Players from England , Scotland , Wales and Ireland are eligible for selection to the British & Irish Lions touring squad. Lions matches are classed as full international tests, and caps are awarded. The Pacific Islanders team, composed of players from Fiji , Samoa , Tonga , Niue and Cook Islands have
84-486: A World Cup or European Championship finals tournament, then they are given a single cap for the competition, with the names of all their opponents stitched into the fabric of the cap itself. For example, when David Beckham made his one-hundredth appearance for England, because a number of his appearances had been at World Cup and European Championship final tournaments for which he could only receive one cap, he received only his 85th physical cap. In Scotland, for many years
105-404: A cap is now international and is applied to other sports. Although in some sports physical caps may not now always be given (whether at all or for each appearance) the term cap for an international or other appearance has been retained as an indicator of the number of occasions on which a sportsperson has represented a team in a particular sport. Thus, a "cap" is awarded for each game played and so
126-474: A player who has played x games for the team is said to have been capped x times or have won x caps. The practice of awarding a physical cap varies from sport to sport. It may be awarded before a player's debut or, particularly for national teams, a commemorative cap may be awarded after a player reaches the 100th cap. Some men's association football teams still award physical caps. Players are awarded one cap for every match they play – unless they play in
147-603: A similar arrangement, although no players involved have so far reached 100 caps (Fijian Nicky Little is closest with 71 caps). Players still active at Test level are in bold type . The International Rugby League honours players that have made 50 international appearances in their career with a special golden cap. The record for most caps is held by former Australian Kangaroos player and captain Darren Lockyer with 59 matches. Players still active at Test level are in bold type . Physical caps are not distributed by
168-610: Is 5th in the list of England's all-time Goal Scorers (behind Kevin Sinfield , George Fairbairn , Andrew Farrell and Ernest Ward , and with 52 points he is 8th in the list of England's all-time Point Scorers (behind Kevin Sinfield George Fairbairn , Ryan Hall , Andrew Farrell , Sam Tomkins , Rob Burrow , and Ernest Ward ). Jimmy Ledgard played fullback in Yorkshire 's 3–12 defeat by Lancashire in
189-406: Is common for a player to be presented with their cap in a ceremony on the first morning of their maiden Test match , although a physical cap may not be presented for every occasion on which a player represents his country. International caps are numbered according to the number of players who have represented the country before. For example, cap number 50 is awarded to the fiftieth player to represent
210-532: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jimmy Ledgard James "Jim"/"Jimmy" Ledgard (9 June 1922 – 26 January 2007) was an English rugby union and World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1960s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Sandal RUFC , and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain , England and Yorkshire , and at club level for Dewsbury (two spells), and Leigh , as
231-431: The 1949–50 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1949–50 season at Wilderspool Stadium , Warrington on Saturday 29 October 1949, and played fullback in the 6–14 defeat by Wigan in the 1951–52 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1951–52 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 27 October 1951. Cap (sport) In sport , a cap is a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from
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#1732802133933252-473: The 1954 Rugby League World Cup against France (5- goals ), Australia (2-goals), New Zealand (1- try , 4-goals), France (2-goals) (World Cup 1954 4-caps, 1-try, 13-goals). Jimmy Ledgard played fullback in all four of Great Britain 's 1954 Rugby League World Cup matches, including Great Britain 's 16–12 victory over France in the 1954 Rugby League World Cup Final at Parc des Princes , Paris on 13 November 1954. As of December 2016, With 23 goals, Jimmy
273-626: The 1949 County Championship Final during the 1948–49 season at Thrum Hall , Halifax on Tuesday 3 May 1949, in front of a crowd of 7,000. Jimmy Ledgard played fullback , and scored a drop goal in Dewsbury 's 4–13 defeat by Wigan in the Championship Final during the 1946–47 season at Maine Road , Manchester on Saturday 21 June 1947. Jimmy Ledgard played fullback , and scored 2- goals in Leigh 's 7–20 defeat by Wigan in
294-643: The River Calder in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Ledgard . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ledgard&oldid=891667016 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
315-617: The Scottish players wearing cowls , and the English wearing a variety of school caps. The practice was first approved on 10 May 1886 for association football after a proposal made by N. Lane Jackson , founder of the Corinthians : That all players taking part for England in future international matches be presented with a white silk cap with red rose embroidered on the front. These to be termed International Caps . The act of awarding
336-1003: The club until 1958. He was part of the Great Britain side that won the 1954 World Cup , winning his 11th and last cap in the 16–12 win over France in the final. Jimmy Ledgard was born in Wakefield , West Riding of Yorkshire , England, and he died aged 84 in Dewsbury , West Yorkshire , England. Jimmy Ledgard won caps for England while at Dewsbury in 1947 against France (2 matches), and Wales, while at Leigh in 1948 against Wales, in 1949 against France, and Other Nationalities , in 1951 against Wales, and France, in 1952 against Other Nationalities (2 matches), and Wales, in 1953 against Wales, in 1955 against Other Nationalities, and won caps for Great Britain while at Dewsbury in 1947 against New Zealand (2 matches), while at Leigh in 1948 against Australia, in 1950 against Australia (2 matches), and New Zealand, in 1951 against New Zealand, and in
357-459: The country. In some domestic cricket competitions, caps are also awarded. However, they are not awarded automatically for every appearance made, but instead at the discretion of the administrators of the club for whom the recipient plays, and are a one-off recognition that the recipient is now a regular, established player for the club. The most prevalent example of this system is in English county cricket , in which many First Class counties award
378-530: The highest number of international caps as of 5 November 2010 is retired American player Kristine Lilly , who has 354 caps. In men's association football, the record belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal; he surpassed Bader Al-Mutawa with his 197th cap on 23 March 2023, before extending his record to 198 caps on 26 March 2023. The first footballer to win 100 international caps was Billy Wright of England's Wolverhampton Wanderers . Wright went on to appear 105 times for England, 90 of them he obtained whilst he
399-531: The practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football . In the early days of football, the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, so each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap. An early illustration of the first international football match between Scotland and England in 1872 shows
420-626: The practice was to present caps only for appearances in the British Home Championship , meaning that several players never received one (including those in their 1958 FIFA World Cup squad); this anomaly was rectified retrospectively in the 2000s after pressure from players' families. FIFA recognises certain international games as ones where a player can be awarded a cap – these games are regarded as International "A" games. These are matches in which both nations field their first Representative Team. The world record holder for
441-400: Was a captain. Bold denotes players currently active in international football. As in association football, cricket still awards a physical cap. Caps are awarded both at international and domestic level, however the criterion for winning a cap differs between international and domestic cricket. In international cricket, a player is awarded a cap for every appearance made. It
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