Cecil Moss (12 February 1925 – 27 October 2017) was a South African
rugby union
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player, coach and a professional physician. He was also a qualified medical doctor (anaesthetist) and was part of the medical team who removed the heart from the first heart transplant donor, Denise Darvall. Moss was Jewish
and had two children.
He had 4
caps
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for
South Africa
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in 1949.
Cecil Moss
on scrum.com, retrieved 3 June 2010 Educated at the South African College Schools
The South African College Schools (colloquially often known as “SACS”) is a public English medium primary and high education institution situated in Newlands - part of the Southern Suburbs region of Cape Town in the Western Cape province ...
, he developed close involvement with the University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
. Moss was vice-captain of the Springboks in 1949, when they beat 4–0, and played four winning tests for South Africa, debuting on 16 July 1949.
He was head coach of South Africa from 1982 to 1989 and achieved 10 wins and only 2 losses during his time in office. He missed the 1987 Rugby World Cup
The 1987 Rugby World Cup was the first Rugby World Cup. It was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia – New Zealand hosted 21 matches (17 pool stage matches, two quarter-finals, the third-place play-off and the final) while Australia hosted 11 ...
due to the international sports boycott against his country's apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
policies.
See also
* List of select Jewish rugby union players
References
External links
Cecil Moss
on scrum.com
Letter from Cape Town
in ''The Jewish Chronicle
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The Glory of the Game
about the Ten Jewish Springboks.
1925 births
2017 deaths
South Africa international rugby union players
South African rugby union players
South African rugby union coaches
Jewish rugby union players
South African Jews
South African anaesthetists
Jewish South African sportspeople
Alumni of South African College Schools
Rugby union players from the Western Cape
Rugby union wings
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