John Dee (rugby union)
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John MacKenzie Dee (born 22 October 1938) is an English former international rugby union player.
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Full name | John MacKenzie Dee | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1938-10-22) 22 October 1938 (age 85) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Hartlepool, England | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
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Dee played his rugby for hometown club Hartlepool Rovers. He made his England debut as a centre against Scotland at Murrayfield in the 1962 Five Nations Championship and toured South Africa that year with the British Lions.[1] In 1963, Dee made the England squad for their Australasia tour, where he was capped a second time in the Auckland Test against the All Blacks, playing as a winger.[2] His father Jack was a trainer on the England team.[3]