Roy Prosser
Birth name | Roydon Barnett Prosser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 18 February 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Manly, New South Wales, Australia[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 August 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Newington College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Cyril Towers, Father-in-law | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roydon "Roy" Barnett Prosser (18 February 1942 – 13 August 2008) was an Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies twenty-five times. Prosser was once Australia's most capped prop.[2]
Early life
[edit]Prosser was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1949–1959) commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House.[3]
Club Rugby
[edit]Prosser played a club record 220 first grade games for Northern Suburbs Rugby Club and was a member of our three premiership sides in the 1960s.
Waratahs
[edit]He made his New South Wales debut in 1963, making 24 appearances for the Waratahs over the following ten seasons.
Wallabies
[edit]Prosser played 25 Test matches: seven against South Africa, six against New Zealand, five against France, three against Ireland and one each against England, Scotland, Wales and Fiji.[1] He made his Test debut in 1967 against England at Twickenham in a game the Wallabies won 23–11 and played in two tests of that 1966–67 Wallaby tour. His last Test was against Fiji in Suva in 1972 which the Wallabies won 21–19.[1]
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Roy Prosser at ESPNscrum
- Australian Rugby
- The Courier Mail
- The West Australian
- 1942 births
- 2008 deaths
- Australian rugby union players
- People educated at Newington College
- Australia international rugby union players
- People from Manly, New South Wales
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- Rugby union props
- Northern Suburbs Rugby Club players
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- Australian rugby union biography stubs