Claude Brian "Stack" Stevens (2 June 1940 – 10 October 2017) was an English rugby union player who played

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for Penzance and Newlyn, Harlequins,

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(with 83 caps, and captain from 1973 to 1975) and

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25 times at international level between 1969 and 1975, captaining them for a match in 1971. He also toured with the

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to Australia and

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. Stevens had suffered from a rare and serious neurological condition. He died on 10 October 2017.

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