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Alf ‘Bullock’ Dobbs was a rugby union convert who played with
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in the inaugural season of rugby league and although he did not take part in any of the infant code's representative matches that year he was a late inclusion (along with
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Rugby League News "Pioneer Alf Dobbs Passes" 3 July 1954,
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