Frank Mitchell (sportsman, born 1872)
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Born | Market Weighton, Yorkshire | 13 August 1872|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 11 October 1935 Blackheath, London | (aged 63)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Thomas Mitchell (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 115/76) | 14 February 1899 England v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 17 July 1912 South Africa v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1894–1897 | Transvaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 December 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Caius College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frank Mitchell (13 August 1872 – 11 October 1935)[1] was an English international cricketer and rugby union player.
School, University and Yorkshire
Born on 13 August 1872 in
In
South Africa
Mitchell returned to South Africa in the
Mitchell later returned to England, playing first-class cricket only once more, for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University in 1914. He died 11 October 1935 in Blackheath, London.
Other sports
At Cambridge he also won blues at rugby and at putting the weight. He was also captained at rugby. Mitchell went on to play for Blackheath and won six caps for England at rugby between 1895 and 1896 as a forward in what was recognised as a very strong pack. He also kept goal for Sussex at soccer.
Mitchell also wrote about rugby. For example, he contributed a chapter entitled Forward Play to a book by Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Rugby Football (London: The Isthmian Library, 1896), recently republished in facsimile form.[3]
Later life
In World War I, he returned to active duty, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was mentioned in despatches. After hostilities ended, he watched one of his sons, Thomas, play cricket for Kent, and corresponded for The Cricketer before his sudden death in 1935, aged 63.[1]
See also
- List of cricketers who have played for more than one international team
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905080-06-9.
- ^ "Mitchell, Frank (MTCL893F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Rugby Book Review – Rugby in the 19th Century". Rugby World. 25 March 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
External links
Media related to Frank Mitchell (sportsman, born 1872) at Wikimedia Commons