David Rosser
| Full name | David William Albert Rosser | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 March 1938 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Portsmouth, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Rochdale Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Christ's College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||
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David William Albert "Dai" Rosser (born 27 March 1938) is an English former international rugby union player.[1]
Born to a Welsh father and English mother, Rosser was born in Portsmouth and attended Rochdale Grammar School, before undertaking tertiary studies at the Christ's College, Cambridge. He gained a blue his first year of rugby with Cambridge University RUFC and toured South Africa with a combined Oxford/Cambridge side.[2]
Rosser was capped five times as a centre for England, while playing for Wasps. He featured in all four of England's 1965 Five Nations matches, debuting against Wales at Cardiff, then played Wales again in the 1966 Five Nations.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Freshmen will have better chance of Blue". Evening Standard. 13 October 1962.
- ^ "Local Rugby Union Player Gets His England "Cap"". Heywood Advertiser. 22 January 1965.
- ^ "Tudor James Sees Wales Triumph At Twickenham". Sunday Mirror. 16 January 1966.
External links
[edit]- David Rosser at ESPNscrum