Alan Key (rugby union)
| Date of birth | 4 June 1908 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Amersham, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 2 July 1989 (aged 81) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Ploughley, England | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Cranleigh School | ||||||||||||||||
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Lieutenant colonel Alan Key (4 June 1908 – 2 July 1989) was a British Army officer and England international rugby union player of the 1930s.
Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Key was educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey, where he gained his blues as a stand-off, before becoming a scrum-half for Old Cranleighans. He has the distinction of being first Old Cranleighan to be capped for England and ascended to the club captaincy in 1933.[1]
Key was versatile enough to play in every backline position except fullback in matches for the Barbarians, though he was best suited to scrum-half.[2] He was a Middlesex representative player and gained two England caps, against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in the 1930 Five Nations and Wales at Twickenham in the 1933 Home Nations.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Alan Key Captain of Old Cranleighans". Evening Standard. 19 September 1933.
- ^ "Key, Barbarian all-rounder". The Daily Telegraph. 4 July 1989.
- ^ "A. Key's Selection". Evening Standard. 9 January 1933.
External links
[edit]- Alan Key at ESPNscrum
- 1908 births
- 1989 deaths
- English rugby union players
- England international rugby union players
- British Army officers
- Sportspeople from Amersham
- Rugby union players from Buckinghamshire
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Middlesex County RFU players
- People educated at Cranleigh School
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire