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Roy Prosser

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Roy Prosser
Birth nameRoydon Barnett Prosser
Date of birth18 February 1942
Place of birthManly, New South Wales, Australia[1]
Date of death13 August 2008
Place of deathBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
SchoolNewington College
Notable relative(s)Cyril Towers, Father-in-law
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Northern Suburbs ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1966–1972 Australia 25[1]

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

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Prosser was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1949–1959) commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House.[3]

Club Rugby

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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

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He made his New South Wales debut in 1963, making 24 appearances for the Waratahs over the following ten seasons.

Wallabies

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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

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  1. ^ a b c d "Roy Prosser". Scrum.com.
  2. ^ Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 468: Prosser, Roydon Barnett (1942 – )
  3. ^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 160
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