Bill Taberer
Appearance
Birth name | Walter Stringfellow Taberer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 April 1872 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | King William's Town, Cape Colony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 10 February 1938 | (aged 65)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Bulawayo, Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | St. Andrew's College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Henry Taberer, brother | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walter Stringfellow Taberer (11 April 1872 – 10 February 1938) was a South African international rugby union player. Born in King William's Town, he attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, where he was a Douglass Scholar[1] before playing provincial rugby for Griqualand West. He made his only Test appearance for South Africa during Great Britain's 1896 tour. He played as a centre in the 2nd Test of the series, a 17–8 South Africa loss.[2] Taberer died in 1938, in Bulawayo, at the age of 65.[3]
He also played first-class cricket for Rhodesia.[4]
He was a Southern Rhodesian civil servant.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Laurie 1914, p. 41.
- ^ "Bill Taberer". Springbok Rugby Hall of Fame. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "South Africa / Players & Officials / Bill Taberer". Scrum. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "Walter Taberer". CricketArchive.
References
[edit]- Laurie, K. W. J. (1914). Register of S. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, from 1855 to 1914. Grahamstown: Slater & Co.
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- South African rugby union players
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- South African people of British descent
- South African emigrants to Rhodesia
- Alumni of St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown
- 1872 births
- 1938 deaths
- Rugby union players from the Eastern Cape
- Griquas (rugby union) players
- Cape Colony people
- Rhodesian civil servants
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