Nick Drake-Lee

{{Short description|England international rugby union player (1942–2021)}}

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| birth_place = Kettering, England

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Nicholas James Drake-Lee (7 April 1942 – 22 January 2021{{cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/player/6761.html|title=Nick Drake-Lee|work=ESPN Scrum|accessdate=27 November 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/rfu-pays-tribute-to-former-england-prop-drake-lee| title=RFU PAYS TRIBUTE TO FORMER ENGLAND PROP DRAKE-LEE| date=25 January 2021| access-date=25 January 2021}}) was a rugby union prop who played 73 games for Leicester Tigers between 1962 and 1968; he represented England 8 times between 1963 and 1965. He was a Cambridge University blue between 1961 and 1963.

Drake-Lee made his Leicester debut against Bath on 6 January 1962 and played 10 times that season.{{cite book|last1=Farmer|first1=Stuart|last2=Hands|first2=David|title=Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club|publisher=The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation|isbn=978-0-9930213-0-5|page=157}}

He was a member of the Cambridge University rugby team in their undefeated 1961 season winning 14 games including the Varsity Match.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2011/dec/06/university-match-cambridge-twickenham|title=University match greybeards gather to relive timeless battle of '61|work=The Guardian|author=Frank Keating|date=6 December 2011|accessdate=29 October 2016}} Before Cambridge, he was a Rugby Vice-Captain at Stonyhurst College.

Drake-Lee made his international debut for England on 19 January 1963 against Wales at Cardiff.{{cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/match/20118.html|title=Wales (0) 6 - 13 (5) England (FT)|publisher=ESPNscrum|accessdate=27 November 2016}} He played in all four games as England won the 1963 Five Nations Championship.