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Joe Stewart (rugby union)

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Joe Stewart
Full nameWilliam Joseph Stewart
Date of birth(1900-09-24)24 September 1900
Place of birthBoghill, Coleraine, Ireland
Date of death1 February 1959(1959-02-01) (aged 58)
Place of deathStalmine, Lancashire, England
Occupation(s)Doctor
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fullback
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1922–29 Ireland 10 (0)

William Joseph Stewart (24 September 1900 — 1 February 1959) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Raised in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Stewart attended Coleraine Academical Institution and studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast. He was a fullback, capped 10 times for Ireland through the 1920s. His career career included a period in England, where he played for the Preston Grasshoppers and Lancashire.[1]

Stewart, a doctor, worked in British India with the Indian Medical Service from 1933 until independence in 1947, then had a general practice for a number of years in the Lancashire district of Over Wyre.[2]

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  1. ^ "Doctor was 10 times on Ireland rugby team". Belfast Telegraph. 4 February 1959.
  2. ^ "Doctor Dies Suddenly At Stalmine". Lancashire Evening Post. 2 February 1959.
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