James Stanley Roope Reeve (12 September 1908 – 6 November 1936) 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.
Biography
The son of a judge, Reeve was born in
Kensington
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
and attended
Rugby School
Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...
, before undertaking further studies at
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...
. He followed his father into law and became a barrister.
Reeve was a long-striding wing three-quarter who was quick off the mark and played his rugby with
Harlequins.
He made his
England
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debut in the 1929 Five Nations and featured in all four matches of their championship-winning 1930 campaign, scoring two tries in their tournament opener against
Wales
Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
. Selected on the
1930 British Lions tour, Reeve played the first Test at Carisbrook and scored the first of his side's two tries to help defeat the All Blacks 6–3, which would be their only win of the series. He featured in a further two matches against the All Blacks, then played the one-off Test in Sydney, and was said to have outpaced Olympic sprinter
James Carlton in a fixture against New South Wales.
In 1936, Reeve was killed in a motor accident, at the age of 28.
See also
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List of British & Irish Lions players
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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
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1908 births
1936 deaths
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
Rugby union wings
Rugby union players from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
British & Irish Lions rugby union players from England
Harlequin F.C. players
Middlesex County RFU players
People educated at Rugby School
People from Kensington
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Road incident deaths in England
20th-century English sportsmen