Roy Sabine

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Roy Sabine
Personal information
BornEngland
Playing information
Rugby union
PositionCentre
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1962–≥62 "The Dukes"
Rugby league
PositionStand-off
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1959–≥62 Keighley 175
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Yorkshire
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
≤1976–≥76 Keighley

Roy Sabine (birth unknown) is an English former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached rugby league in the 1970s. He played rugby union (RU) for Duke of Wellington's Regiment ("The Dukes"), as a centre, i.e. number 12 or 13, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Keighley, as a stand-off, i.e. number 6, and coached at club level for Keighley. Roy Sabine served as a Private with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

Coaching career[edit]

Roy Sabine coached Keighley to the 1976 Challenge Cup semi-final during the 1975–76 season against St. Helens at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 3 April 1976.[1]

Honoured at Keighley Cougars[edit]

Roy Sabine is a Keighley Cougars Hall of Fame inductee, he was inducted in 1999 alongside Len Ward.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Edgar, Harry (2008). Rugby League Journal Annual 2009 [Page-61]. Rugby League Journal Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9548355-4-5
  2. ^ "Tribute paid to legend Ward, 85". keighleynews.co.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

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