Ronnie Hill | |
Full Name: | Ronald Andrew Hill |
Birth Date: | 20 December 1934 |
Birth Place: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Death Place: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Position: | Hooker |
Repyears1: | 1960–63 |
Repcaps1: | 7 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Ronald Andrew Hill (20 December 1934 – 6 November 2011) was a South African international rugby union player.[1]
Hill was born in Johannesburg but raised in Bulawayo from the age of three. He attended Technical High School.[2]
A hooker, Hill played his rugby for Bulawayo-based club Old Miltonians and Rhodesia. He won Springboks selection on the 1960–61 tour of Europe as an understudy to Abie Malan, whose knee injury gave Hill a Test debut against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park, the first of seven Springboks caps.[3]
Hill's daughter Debbie represented Zimbabwe in diving at the 1980 Olympic Games.[2]