Cecil Moss (12 February 1925 – 27 October 2017) was a South African

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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

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in 1949.Cecil Moss
on scrum.com, retrieved 3 June 2010 Educated at the

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, he developed close involvement with the

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. 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

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due to the international sports boycott against his country's

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policies.

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Cecil Moss
on scrum.com
Letter from Cape Town
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The Glory of the Game
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