Henry Vassall
Appearance
Birth name | Henry Holland Vassall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 23 March 1887 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Torrington, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 8 October 1949 | (aged 62)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Bedford School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Harry Vassall, (uncle) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Henry Holland "Jumbo" Vassall (23 March 1887 – 8 October 1949)[1] was an English rugby union player, best known as a centre for Oxford University in the first decade of the 20th century. In 1908 Vassall played a single international rugby game for England and that same year for the Anglo-Welsh team on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jumbo Vassall international rugby profile Scrum.com
Categories:
- 1887 births
- 1949 deaths
- English rugby union players
- Rugby union centres
- Barbarian F.C. players
- Oxford University RFC players
- England international rugby union players
- British & Irish Lions rugby union players from England
- People educated at Bedford School
- Rugby union players from Devon
- East Midlands RFU players
- Somerset County RFU players