Roy Prosser
{{Short description|Australia international rugby union player}}
{{For|the Welsh rugby union player|Ray Prosser}}
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| birth_name = Roydon Barnett Prosser
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| birth_date = 18 February 1942
| birth_place = Manly, New South Wales, Australia
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| death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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| ru_position = Prop
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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.Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 468: Prosser, Roydon Barnett (1942 – )
Early life
Prosser was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1949–1959) commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House.Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 160
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. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/australia/rugby/player/7170.html|title=Roy Prosser|publisher=Scrum.com}}
References
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External links
- {{ESPNscrum|7170}}
- [http://rugby.com.au/news/article,103933.html Australian Rugby]
- [http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24208156-5003411,00.html The Courier Mail]
- [http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=13&ContentID=91458 The West Australian]
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Category:Australian rugby union players
Category:People educated at Newington College
Category:Australia international rugby union players
Category:People from Manly, New South Wales
Category:Rugby union players from Sydney
Category:Northern Suburbs Rugby Club players
Category:New South Wales rugby union team players
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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