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Cooke also attended Saint John"s College, York now York Street John University where he played both rugby union and cricket.
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Geoff Cooke
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During his playing career he played mainly as a Centre/Fly Half 1962-1972 and captained his Club Bradford Reconstruction Finance Corporation and his County, Cumbria. He was coach to Bradford Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1973 to 1975, coach to Yorkshire Rugby Football Union 1975-1979, then Chairman of Selectors from 1980-1985. He was a North of England selector from 1979-1987.
Cooke was appointed Manager of the England Rugby Union Team in October 1987 and led the England Rugby team in 49 international matches between 1987 and 1994 including two tours to Australia/Fiji and one to Argentina.
In 1993 he was made Manager of the British Lions rugby union tour to New Zealand. In recent years he has been Chief Executive and Director of Rugby at Bedford Rugby Club guiding them to promotion to the Premiership in 1998 and Chief Executive at Wakefield Rugby Club and Worcester Rugby Club until his retirement from full-time employment in April 2002.
Back in the amateur ranks he rejoined his former club, Bradford & Bingley as Director of Rugby, guiding them to promotion to North One in his first season and then taking them straight through in 2003-2004 to a second successive promotion to National League Three (North) and also winning the Intermediate Cup at Twickenham. After retiring from active coaching he served as Executive Director of First Division Rugby Limited, the collective organisation of sixteen clubs that competed in National League One of the English Rugby Union Clubs Championship until superseded by the present Championship.
Now fully retired he was President and Chairman of the Directors of Bracken Ghyll Golf Club in Addingham, Yorkshire from 2011 to 2013.
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