Horace Wass (26 August 1903 – 14 January 1969) was an English sportsman, who made over 400

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appearances playing

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for

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from 1920 to 1937 and for

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in 1937. He also played first-class

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for

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in 1929.

Football

Wass was born in

. He started playing football with Chesterfield in 1920 as an amateur, turning professional two years later. He remained with the club until the end of the 1936–37 season. He then moved to

, for whom he played 20 league games. He had a trial at

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in 1938 and played for

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in the

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Cricket

Wass played one first-class match for Derbyshire against

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during the 1929 season, in which he played one innings to make 9 runs. Though he did not appear again for Derbyshire, he became a leading light in the days of pre-

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, making his first appearances during 1935, and further appearances against teams assembled by Sir

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between 1935 and 1937. He appeared for Scotland eight times in total: twice against the

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, once against the

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and five times against

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's XI. These games did not have first-class status. He was a right-handed batsman. Wass went to Australia, where he was an active football and cricket coach with the Hills District junior teams. He was also an outstanding senior golfer based at the Monash Country Club in Sydney. Horace Wass died of heart failure at his home in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, at the age of 65.

References

External links

Horace Wass
at Cricket Archive

at Cricinfo.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Wass, Horace 1903 births 1969 deaths English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Cricketers from Chesterfield, Derbyshire English footballers Association football wing halves Chesterfield F.C. players Southport F.C. players Chelmsford City F.C. players Footballers from Chesterfield English emigrants to Australia