Reginald Sidney Roberts (4 December 1911 – May 1992) was an English

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 hooker, Roberts played four seasons with his native

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

, during which time he was a regular member of the Warwickshire representative side, making 20 consecutive appearances. He gained his solitary

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

cap in their 1932 Home Nations win over

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

at Lansdowne Road and was an England reserve on five occasions. Roberts was signed by

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

club

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...

in 1933. He played for the club in their 1935 Challenge Cup final defeat against

Castleford Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the t ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Reginald 1911 births 1992 deaths English rugby union players England international rugby union players English rugby league players Footballers who switched code Rugby league players from Coventry Huddersfield Giants players Rugby union players from Coventry Coventry R.F.C. players Warwickshire County RFU players Rugby union hookers 20th-century English sportsmen

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