John Synge | |
Full Name: | John Samuel Synge |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1906 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Position: | Wing-forward |
Repyears1: | 1929 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
John Samuel Synge (12 July 1906 — 26 August 1982) was an Irish international rugby union player.[1]
Synge, born in Dublin, was educated at St Columba's College and Clare College, Cambridge.[2]
A Cambridge rugby blue, Synge was a robust forward who was at his best on the loose and gained his only Ireland cap as a wing-forward, deputing for Charles Payne against Scotland at Lansdowne Road in 1929.[3]