Roly Green

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| birth_name = Roland Leslie Green

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|09|01|df=y}}

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| death_place = Timaru, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|10|29|1927|09|01|df=yes}}

| ru_position = Halfback

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| ru_province1 = {{Rut|South Canterbury}}

| ru_provinceyears1 = 1950–52

| ru_provinceapps1 = 19

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| relatives = James Green (great-uncle)

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Roland Leslie Green (1 September 1927 – 29 October 2017) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A halfback, Green represented {{Rut|South Canterbury}} at a provincial level from 1950 to 1952, playing 19 matches for the union, including its first Ranfurly Shield victory in 1950.{{cite news| url = https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/98368031/South-Canterbury-Ranfurly-Shield-original-passes-away-aged-90 |title = South Canterbury Ranfurly Shield original passes away aged 90 | last = Piddington | first = Stu | work = Timaru Herald | accessdate = 31 October 2017}} When he died in Timaru on 29 October 2017, Green was the last surviving member of the playing XV from that match.{{cite web | url = http://deaths.press.co.nz/obituaries/the-press-nz/obituary.aspx?n=roland-green&pid=187089434 | title = Roland Green death notice | date = 30 October 2017 | work = The Press | accessdate = 31 October 2017}}

Born on 1 September 1927,{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2017/30663 |date= |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |accessdate=11 November 2017}} Green was the son of Daisy Green (née Aitchison) and Richard Corbett Cooper Green,{{cite web | url=http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~%20imitchel/aitchson.htm | title=Family of Thomas Aitchison, Mary Muir | date=10 January 1999 | accessdate=31 October 2017}} whose father Isaac Green served four terms as mayor of North East Valley in Dunedin.{{cite web | url=http://niddfamily.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/green-family-of-north-east-valley.html | title=Green family of North East Valley, Dunedin | date=2 December 2012 | accessdate=31 October 2017}} Isaac Green's brother, James Green, was a New Zealand member of Parliament.