Rodney Webb
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Birth name | Rodney Edward Webb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date of birth | 18 August 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Newbold-on-Avon, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Newbold Grange High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Dick Webb (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Rodney Edward Webb (born 18 August 1943) is a former England international rugby union player.[1]
He was capped twelve times as a wing for England between 1967 and 1972.
In 1983, Webb took over the Gilbert company in Rugby, Warwickshire, which supplied Rugby Balls. He conceived the idea of turning the company's premises into a museum, as at the time there was no museum in Britain dedicated solely to the game of rugby football. It was opened to the public as the Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum four years later in April 1987.[2]
References
- ^ "Rodney Webb". espnscrum.com. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ 'Aspects of 20th Century Rugby' - Rugby Local History Research Group, pages 79-80
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from September 2016
- Use British English from September 2016
- Infobox rugby biography with deprecated parameters
- Pages using infobox rugby biography with multiple amateurclubs
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Barbarian F.C. players
- Coventry R.F.C. players
- England international rugby union players
- English rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Rugby, Warwickshire
- Rugby union wings
- Warwickshire County RFU players
- All stub articles
- English rugby union biography stubs