Victor Lyttle | |
Full Name: | Victor Johnstone Lyttle |
Birth Date: | 17 July 1911 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Ireland |
Death Place: | Birmingham, England |
School: | Methodist College |
Position: | Wing |
Repyears1: | 1938–39 |
Repcaps1: | 3 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Victor Johnstone Lyttle (17 July 1911 — 7 September 1996) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Belfast, Lyttle was the son of photographer R. Clements Lyttle, a noted association football administrator. He attended Methodist College Belfast and subsequently competed for Collegians, before moving to London.[1]
Lyttle, a wing three-quarter, played in London for Harlequins, then took up a job with Kodak in Birmingham and transferred to Bedford.[2] He was an East Midlands representative player and toured Wales with the Barbarians in 1938. Capped three times for Ireland, Lyttle debuted against England in a 1938 Home Nations at Lansdowne Road and made a further two appearances during their 1939 Home Nations campaign.[3]