George Phipps | |
Full Name: | George Constantine Phipps |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1927 |
Birth Place: | Peshawar, British India |
Position: | Three-quarter |
Repyears1: | 1950–52 |
Repcaps1: | 5 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
George Constantine Phipps (born 2 November 1927) is an Irish former international rugby union player.
Born in Peshawar, Phipps was educated in England, attending Wellington College.[1]
Phipps served with the British Army like his father, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps. An officer in the Royal Hampshire Regiment, Phipps played his rugby for English club Rosslyn Park, as well as the Army.[2] He was capped five times for Ireland as a three-quarter, debuting against England at Twickenham in the 1950 Five Nations.[3]