Jeff Sayle (rugby union)

Jeff Sayle
Full nameJeffrey Leonard Sayle
Date of birth(1942-08-25)25 August 1942
Place of birthStanmore, Sydney, Australia
Date of death30 September 2019(2019-09-30) (aged 77)
Place of deathRandwick, Sydney, Australia
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1967 Australia 1 (0)

Jeffrey Leonard Sayle OAM (25 August 1942 — 30 September 2019) was an Australian rugby union international.

Sayle, born in Sydney, attended Maroubra Bay High School and was a product of Randwick juniors.[1]

A flanker, Sayle gained a Wallabies cap on the 1967 tour of New Zealand for a one-off Test against the All Blacks to celebrate the NZRFU's 75th Jubilee.[1] After 160 first-grade games for Randwick, he took over as the club's coach in 1982, with Bob Dwyer moving on to lead the national team. He coached Randwick to six Shute Shield titles.[2]

Sayle received a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2006 Australia Day Honours list for "service to Rugby Union football through the Randwick Rugby Union Club, and to surf lifesaving through the Coogee Surf Life Saving Club".[3]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Jeffrey Leonard Sayle". classicwallabies.com.au.
  2. ^ "Rugby mourns passing of Randwick icon Jeff Sayle". www.rugby.com.au. 1 October 2019.
  3. ^ Decent, Tom (1 October 2019). "Former Wallaby and Randwick legend Jeffrey Sayle dies aged 77". The Sydney Morning Herald.