Ronnie_Hill

Ronnie Hill

Ronnie Hill

Rugby player

Ronald Andrew Hill (20 December 1934 – 6 November 2011) was a South African international rugby union player.[1]

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Hill was born in Johannesburg but raised in Bulawayo from the age of three. He attended Technical High School.[2]

A hooker, Hill played his rugby for Bulawayo-based club Old Miltonians and Rhodesia. He won Springboks selection on the 1960–61 tour of Europe as an understudy to Abie Malan, whose knee injury gave Hill a Test debut against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park, the first of seven Springboks caps.[3]

Hill's daughter Debbie represented Zimbabwe in diving at the 1980 Olympic Games.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Zim Boks are nothing new". News24. 5 September 2008.
  2. [2]
    "Noteable Ronald Andrew Hill". www.oldmiltonians.com.
  3. [3]
    "KYK: Die Bokke se groot moddertoets". Netwerk24 (in Afrikaans). 26 November 2016.

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