Career
While playing country rugby league for the Cessnock club, he was selected to represent Newcastle when they hosted the 1951 French touring side and lost. He suffered a groin injury in that match which required surgery in the off-season. Schofield played for Cessnock in each of their Newcastle Rugby League grand finals victories of 1950, 1954, 1955 and 1960.
Towards the end of his career he captained the Newcastle team against the touring Great Britain 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".
