Leo Price, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Leo Price

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1899

Place of Birth: Sutton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1943

Profession: cricketer, rugby union player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Leo Price

  • Herbert Leo Price (21 June 1899 – 18 July 1943) was a sportsman and schoolmaster.
  • He achieved the unusual feat of playing rugby and hockey for England on consecutive Saturdays.
  • He also played first-class cricket with Oxford University and club rugby for Leicester Tigers and Harlequins. In rugby, Price, a flanker, won his first two international caps for England in the 1922 Five Nations Championship with appearances against Ireland and Scotland.
  • In the Championship the following year, Price helped his country to claim the Grand Slam and scored tries when England took on both Wales and Ireland.
  • Price played 17 games for Leicester Tigers between 1922 and 1927, and though injury disrupted his career he continued playing for the Harlequins until 1932.The talented sportsman played two first-class cricket matches during the 1920s, both for Oxford University.
  • He debuted against the Army in 1920, opening the batting and made 14 followed by a duck.
  • His performance in his next match, against Middlesex in 1922, wasn't much better and he again scored a duck opening the batting but improved in the second innings with 32 not out.
  • His elder brother Vincent, also an outstanding athlete at Oxford, played beside him in the Middlesex match.
  • After Oxford Price played for the Free Foresters.On leaving school he had joined the Artists Rifles but was commissioned too late to see active service.
  • He then went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with a mathematics exhibition and graduated with honours in 1922.Price was an all-round sportsman at Oxford, winning a Blue for rugby in 1921 and 1922, a half-blue for hockey in 1920, 1921, and 1922, and a half-blue for water polo in the four years from 1919 to 1922.
  • He was also capped by the Harlequins, the Oxford University wandering cricket club. After coming down he became a schoolmaster at Uppingham School for two years, and then at Christ's Hospital where he was a junior and then a senior housemaster.
  • In 1932 he became headmaster of Bishop's Stortford College where he himself had been a pupil.He was headmaster until his death after an operation, aged 44.

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