Mick Cossey | |
Birth Name: | Raymond Reginald Cossey |
Birth Date: | 21 January 1935 |
Birth Place: | Papakura, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Drury, New Zealand |
Ru Position: | Second five-eighth Centre Wing |
Height: | 1.780NaN0 |
Weight: | 84kg (185lb) |
Repyears1: | 1958 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Province3: | Counties |
Provinceyears1: | 1953–54 |
Provinceyears2: | 1956–57 |
Provinceyears3: | 1958–62 |
Provinceapps1: | 5 |
Provinceapps2: | 18 |
Provinceapps3: | 51 |
Occupation: | Schoolteacher |
School: | Otahuhu College |
Raymond Reginald "Mick" Cossey (21 January 1935 – 24 May 1986) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, Cossey represented,, and Counties at a provincial level. He played just one match for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks: the first test against the touring Australian side in 1958.[1]
A schoolteacher, Cossey taught at Patutahi School, near Gisborne, in the mid-1950s, where one of his students was future All Black Ian Kirkpatrick.[1]
Cossey was killed in an accident at a railway crossing in 1986,[1] and his ashes were buried in Papakura Cemetery.[2] [3]