Roy Prosser Explained

Roy Prosser
Birth Name:Roydon Barnett Prosser
Birth Date:18 February 1942
Birth Place:Manly, New South Wales, Australia
Death Date:13 August 2008
Death Place:Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ru Position:Prop
Clubs1:Northern Suburbs
Repyears1:1966–1972
Repcaps1:25
Relatives:Cyril Towers, Father-in-law
School:Newington College

Roydon "Roy" Barnett Prosser (18 February 1942 – 13 August 2008) was an Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies twenty-five times. Prosser was once Australia's most capped prop.[1]

Early life

Prosser was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1949–1959) commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House.[2]

Club Rugby

Prosser played a club record 220 first grade games for Northern Suburbs Rugby Club and was a member of our three premiership sides in the 1960s.

Waratahs

He made his New South Wales debut in 1963, making 24 appearances for the Waratahs over the following ten seasons.

Wallabies

Prosser played 25 Test matches: seven against South Africa, six against New Zealand, five against France, three against Ireland and one each against England, Scotland, Wales and Fiji. He made his Test debut in 1967 against England at Twickenham in a game the Wallabies won 23–11 and played in two tests of that 1966–67 Wallaby tour. His last Test was against Fiji in Suva in 1972 which the Wallabies won 21–19.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 468: Prosser, Roydon Barnett (1942 –)
  2. Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 160
  3. Web site: Roy Prosser. Scrum.com.