Alan Key (rugby union) explained

Alan Key
Birth Date:4 June 1908
Birth Place:Amersham, England
Death Place:Ploughley, England
School:Cranleigh School
Position:Scrum-half
Repyears1:1930–33
Repcaps1:2
Reppoints1:0

Lieutenant colonel Alan Key (4 June 1908 – 2 July 1989) was a British Army officer and England international rugby union player of the 1930s.

Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Key was educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey, where he gained his blues as a stand-off, before becoming a scrum-half for Old Cranleighans. He has the distinction of being first Old Cranleighan to be capped for England and ascended to the club captaincy in 1933.[1]

Key was versatile enough to play in every backline position except fullback in matches for the Barbarians, though he was best suited to scrum-half.[2] He was a Middlesex representative player and gained two England caps, against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in the 1930 Five Nations and Wales at Twickenham in the 1933 Home Nations.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Alan Key Captain of Old Cranleighans . . 19 September 1933.
  2. News: Key, Barbarian all-rounder . . 4 July 1989.
  3. News: A. Key's Selection . Evening Standard . 9 January 1933.