John "Jackie" Powell was a

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 m ...

player who represented

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

4 times, once as captain. At 19 years 260 days, he is one of the youngest ever players to have represented South Africa. He also played first-class cricket for

Griqualand West Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km2 that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province. It was inhabited by the Griqua people – a semi-nomadic, Afrikaans-speaking nation of mixed-race origin, wh ...

. Powell attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown in 1890.

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Van Lill's South African Sports Trivia
South African rugby union players South Africa international rugby union players South African cricketers Griqualand West cricketers 1871 births 1955 deaths Alumni of St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown Rugby union players from Cape Town Rugby union fly-halves Griquas (rugby union) players {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-stub