Charles Hubert Sample (22 November 1862 – 2 June 1938) was an English international
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player.
Sample was born in
Castle Ward
Castle Ward is an 18th-century National Trust property located near the village of Strangford, in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. It overlooks Strangford Lough and is 7 miles from Downpatrick and 1.5 miles fro ...
and educated at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mo ...
.
A fullback, Sample was described by the ''
Football Annual
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The ''Football Annual'' was a reference work published annually from 1868 to 1908. It reported on the various codes of football played in England, and also provided some coverage of the other home nations, supplemented on occasion by re ...
'' as a player who was "good at extracting his side from a dilemma", possessing good drop kicking and tackling abilities. He was a
Cambridge University
The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...
blue, represented Northumberland, and was capped three times for England from 1884 to 1886.
See also
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List of England national rugby union players
This article represents a list of people who have played for the England national rugby union team, in the order that they received their first Cap (sport), cap. The list only includes players who have played in an official Test match (rugby union ...
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1862 births
1938 deaths
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
Northumberland RFU players
Rugby union players from Northumberland
Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Rugby union fullbacks