Dion Glass
| Full name | Dion Caldwell Glass | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 15 May 1934 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 11 April 2011 (aged 76) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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Dion Caldwell Glass (15 May 1934 — 11 April 2011) was an Irish international rugby union player.[1]
Born in Belfast, Glass attended Methodist College Belfast, which he captained to the 1952 Ulster Schools' Cup title.[2]
Glass, a Collegians player, was capped four times for Ireland in intermittent appearances from 1958 to 1961. His first three caps were as a centre or wing three-quarter, then on the 1961 tour of South Africa he was utilised as the fly-half against the Springboks at Olën Park at Cape Town.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Collegian Out 6 Weeks". Belfast News-Letter. 23 October 1962.
- ^ "'Old Boys' will make it a day to remember". Belfast News-Letter. 16 March 2002.
- ^ "Seven Ulstermen in Irish Test team". Belfast Telegraph. 10 May 1961.
External links
[edit]- Dion Glass at ESPNscrum