Raymond Reginald "Mick" Cossey (21 January 1935 – 24 May 1986) was a New Zealand
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 it ...
player. A
second five-eighth and centre, Cossey represented , , and
Counties
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at a provincial level. He played just one match for the New Zealand national side, the
All Blacks
The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, ...
: the first test against the
touring Australian side in 1958.
A schoolteacher, Cossey taught at
Patutahi School, near
Gisborne, in the mid-1950s, where one of his students was future All Black
Ian Kirkpatrick
Ian Andrew Kirkpatrick (born 24 May 1946) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. Described as "supremely athletic, fast, fearless and with an uncanny sense of anticipation", Kirkpatrick is widely regarded as one of the greatest flankers t ...
.
Cossey was killed in an accident at a railway crossing in 1986,
and his ashes were buried in
Papakura Cemetery.
References
1935 births
1986 deaths
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Railway accident deaths in New Zealand
Burials at Papakura Cemetery
Rugby union players from Auckland
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