Raymond Reginald "Mick" Cossey (21 January 1935 – 24 May 1986) was a New Zealand

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player. A second five-eighth and centre, Cossey represented , , and

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at a provincial level. He played just one match for the New Zealand national side, the

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: the first test against the touring Australian side in 1958. A schoolteacher, Cossey taught at Patutahi School, near Gisborne, in the mid-1950s, where one of his students was future All Black

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. Cossey was killed in an accident at a railway crossing in 1986, and his ashes were buried in

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Cemetery.

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