Christopher Robert Jennins (born 5 February 1942) is an English former
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 ...
international.
Born in
Runcorn
Runcorn is an industrial town and Runcorn Docks, cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. Runcorn is on the south bank of the River Mersey, where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. It is upstream from the port of Live ...
, Jennins was educated at
Rydal Penrhos
Rydal Penrhos School is a private day school in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. It is the only Methodist school in the independent sector in Wales. It is located on multiple sites around the town with a site in the neighbouring village of Rhos-on-Sea ...
in North Wales.
Jennins played his rugby for Merseyside club
Waterloo
Waterloo most commonly refers to:
* Battle of Waterloo, 1815 battle where Napoleon's French army was defeated by Anglo-allied and Prussian forces
* Waterloo, Belgium
Waterloo may also refer to:
Other places
Australia
* Waterloo, New South Wale ...
and was capped three times by
England
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. He made his debut as a centre against the touring Wallabies at Twickenham in 1967 and featured twice in that year's
Five Nations, including a victory over Ireland at Lansdowne Road. A Lancashire representative, Jennins played in the
1968–69 County Championship final win against Cornwall, with his sideline conversion in the 60th minute proving to be the difference.
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 ...
References
External links
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1942 births
Living people
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Runcorn
Rugby union centres
Waterloo F.C. players
Lancashire County RFU players
People educated at Rydal Penrhos
20th-century English sportsmen