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Frank Mitchell
Full name Frank Mitchell
Date of birth (1872-08-13)13 August 1872
Place of birth Market Weighton, England
Date of death 11 October 1935(1935-10-11) (aged 63)
Place of death Blackheath, Kent, England
School St Peter's School, York
University Caius College, Cambridge
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Forward
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Cambridge University R.U.F.C.
Blackheath Rugby Club
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1895-1896 England 6 (5)

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 recognized 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.

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