Peter Horton (rugby union)
| Full name | Peter Alan Horton | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 20 July 1945 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Brixton, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Peter Alan Horton (born 20 July 1945) is an English-born Australian former rugby union international.[1]
Born and raised in England, Horton was educated at Tulse Hill School and St Luke's College, Exeter. He was a hooker and played for London club Streatham-Croydon, representing Surrey at county level.[2]
Horton moved to Australia at the age of 24 and worked as the Sportsmaster at Gateshead High School in Newcastle, New South Wales, where he played rugby with the Waratahs club. Capped 19 times for the Wallabies from 1974 to 1979, Horton debuted against the All Blacks in Sydney and won a Bledisloe Cup title in his final year.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Early Test hooker lead to is lured north Gidgee". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 December 1976.
- ^ "Welshmen backbone of tourists". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 May 1971.
- ^ "Peter Alan Horton". classicwallabies.com.au.
External links
[edit]- Peter Horton at ESPNscrum
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- English rugby union players
- English emigrants to Australia
- Rugby union players from the London Borough of Lambeth
- People from Brixton
- Rugby union hookers
- Surrey RFU players
- Queensland rugby union team players
- New South Wales rugby union team players