Alan John George Morley
MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
Molal ...
(born 25 June 1950 in
Bristol
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, England) is a former English rugby union player.
He played a record number of 519 times for
Bristol
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, scoring 384 tries, between 1968 and 1986.
He won 7 England caps, from 1972 to 1975, scoring 2 tries, 8 points on aggregate. He played at the
1975 Five Nations Championship
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, scoring a try. He was selected for the
1974 Lions tour but didn't make the Test side, having to compete with
J.J. Williams,
Billy Steele
William Steele (born 19 May 1956 in Dunfermline) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a striker. Steele began his career in the early 1970s as a youngster with Rangers, although he failed to make a first-team appearance. In 1975, S ...
and
Andy Irvine. The highlight of his international career was probably scoring a try on his international début on 3 June 1972, against when an unfancied England side won 18-9.
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Members of the Order of the British Empire
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