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
Current team deceased
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

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

Club Rugby

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

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

Wallabies

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "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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