Bert Sparks | |
Full Name: | Robert Henry Ware Sparks |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1899 |
Birth Place: | East Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon, England |
Death Place: | Cheltenham, Somerset, England |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1928–31 |
Repcaps1: | 9 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Robert Henry Ware Sparks (19 February 1899 – 15 August 1984) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in East Stonehouse, Plymouth, Sparks was a charge hand at the HM Devonport dockyards and played his rugby as a front row forward with Plymouth Albion, which he captained for two seasons.[1]
Sparks debuted for England in their grand slam-winning 1928 Five Nations campaign, playing three of the matches, as one of three Plymouth forwards (with Jerry Hanley and Edward Stanbury).[2] He made another three appearances in 1929, didn't feature in 1930, then played three times in 1931, to finish with nine caps.[3]