Don Schofield was an Australian rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer of the mid 20th century. After playing country rugby league for the Cessnock club, he played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Western Suburbs Magpies

Western Suburbs Magpies

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, scoring two tries in their Grand Final

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 win in the 1952 season. He suffered a groin injury in that match which required surgery in the off-season. Towards the end of his career he captained a Newcastle team against the touring Great Britain

Great Britain national rugby league team

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side in 1962.

Don Schofield died in April 1999, aged 68.

In 2011, the Cessnock club's centenary year, Schofield was named at second-row forward in a Cessnock 'Team of the Century'.