Roydon "Roy" Barnett Prosser (18 February 1942 – 13 August 2008) was an Australian

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player who represented for the

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twenty-five times. Prosser was once Australia's most capped prop.Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 468: Prosser, Roydon Barnett (1942 – )

Early life

Prosser was born in

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and attended

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(1949–1959) commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House.Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 160

Club Rugby

Prosser played a club record 220 first grade games for

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and was a member of our three premiership sides in the 1960s.

Waratahs

He made his

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debut in 1963, making 24 appearances for the Waratahs over the following ten seasons.

Wallabies

Prosser played 25 Test matches: seven against

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, six against

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, five against

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, three against

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and one each against

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and

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. He made his Test debut in 1967 against England at

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in a game the Wallabies won 23–11 and played in two tests of that 1966–67 Wallaby tour. His last Test was against Fiji in

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in 1972 which the Wallabies won 21–19.

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