Now you may be wondering why this card is plain backed, and the answer is that it was designed to be stuck in an album. So if anyone has the album, stuck in or not, can please they supply us with the text that appears for this card and we can enter it here.
Our original British Trade Index part 2 tells us that this set is classed as medium size, and measures 76 x 47 m/m. The cards are printed in black, and are numbered, there being 120 in the set. They are all listed and displayed at the Trading Card Database under "All Sports Checklist". Now the first thing you will notice there is that there is a variety of shadings, but I think there is a reason for this, because by the time we issued our updated British Trade Index in the year 2000 it had been noted that the cards were found with either (a) glossy fronts or (b) matt fronts.
The subject of this card, Jackie Kyle, was actually born John Wilson Kyle, in Belfast, on the 10th of February, 1926. And why he is here is because he led Ireland to not just a victory but a grand slam in the 1948 Five Nations Championship, during which Ireland beat every team it played against.
Now there is a curious fact here, because why the event was called the Five Nations was because France had joined in - in 1910. However in 1931 it was discovered that some of the French players had been paid for playing, not in the championship, but with their home teams, and this led to France being banned from the Five Nations event. Because of this it again returned to being the Home Nations Championships again. They were given an eight year suspension, which ought to have seen them return in 1940, but the event was cancelled for the duration of the Second World War and did not start again until 1947.