Stack Stevens

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| name = Stack Stevens

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| birth_name = Claude Brian Stevens

| birth_place = Godolphin

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| position = Prop

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| amatteam1 = Penzance-Newlyn RFC

| amatteam2 = Harlequins

| amatteam3 = Cornwall

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| repteam1 = England

| repteam2 = British Lions

| repyears1 = 1969–75

| repyears2 = 1971

| repcaps1 = 25

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| occupation = Farmer

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1940|06|2}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|10|1941|06|02|df=y}}

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Claude Brian "Stack" Stevens (2 June 1940 – 10 October 2017){{cite book |last=Griffiths|first=John |title=The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records |year=1987 |publisher=J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd |location=London |isbn=0-460-07003-7 |pages=12:10}} was an English rugby union player who played prop for Penzance and Newlyn, Harlequins, Cornwall (with 83 caps, and captain from 1973 to 1975){{cite web|url=http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Penwith-Sports-Personalities-pastClaud-Brian/story-15921018-detail/story.html|title=Penwith Sports Personalities of the past Claud Brian 'Stack' Stevens|date=26 April 2012|work=The Cornishman|accessdate=14 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210614/http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Penwith-Sports-Personalities-pastClaud-Brian/story-15921018-detail/story.html|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}} and England 25 times at international level between 1969 and 1975, captaining them for a match in 1971. He also toured with the British and Irish Lions to Australia and New Zealand in 1971.

Stevens had suffered from a rare and serious neurological condition.{{cite web|author=Tom Gainey |url=http://www.cornwalllive.com/sport/rugby/sport-world-beyond-pays-tribute-614981 |title=Sport world and beyond pays tribute to Cornish Pirates and England legend Brian 'Stack' Stevens who has passed away aged 77 |publisher=Cornwall Live |date=1940-01-02 |accessdate=2017-10-12}} He died on 10 October 2017.

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