Jack Robert Skeen (23 December 1928 – 28 September 2001) was a New Zealand
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. A
flanker, Skeen represented
Auckland
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at a provincial level, captaining the side from 1954 to 1957. He played just one match the New Zealand national side, the
All Blacks
The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of New Zealand, which is considered the country's national sport. Famed for th ...
, a test against the
touring Australian team at Wellington in 1952.
References
1928 births
2001 deaths
Rugby union players from Auckland
People educated at Sacred Heart College, Auckland
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand international rugby union players
Auckland rugby union players
Rugby union flankers
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