Tony Horton (rugby Union)
Anthony Lawrence Horton (13 July 1938 - 9 March 2020) was an international rugby union player. Horton was capped seven times as a Prop (rugby union), prop for England between 1965 and 1967Griffiths, page 1:39-1:41 and was selected for the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa, where he played in three of the four international matches against . He played club rugby for Blackheath R.C., Blackheath. References

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Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members. In 1845, the first laws were written by students attending Rugby School; other significant even ...
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