Joe Mabon
Appearance
Birth name | John Thomas Mabon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 13 February 1874 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Jedburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 2 June 1945 | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Jedburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joe Mabon (13 February 1874 – 2 June 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a Half-back.[1]
Mabon was described as 'for many years one of the brightest stars in Border and Scottish rugby'.[2]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He played for Jedburgh RFC.[3]
Provincial career
[edit]Mabon played for the South of Scotland in 1898.[4]
International career
[edit]He was capped 4 times for Scotland from 1898 to 1900.[5]
Outside of rugby
[edit]Mabon was an auctioneer. He was secretary of the Jedforest Agricultural Society; and a well known Jedhart Callant, a member of the Callants Club.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "John Thomas Mabon".
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19450614/035/0002.
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Categories:
- 1874 births
- 1945 deaths
- Rugby union players from Jedburgh
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- South of Scotland District (rugby union) players
- Rugby union halfbacks
- Scottish auctioneers
- 19th-century Scottish businesspeople
- 20th-century Scottish businesspeople
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs