Stanley John Purdy (born 6 February 1936) is an English former 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. Born in

Rugby, Warwickshire Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, its population was 78,117, making it the List of Warwickshire towns by population, secon ...

, Purdy was educated at Warwickshire Grammar School and

Lawrence Sheriff School Lawrence Sheriff School (LSS) is a boys' grammar school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan founder of Rugby School. The school was founded in 1878, in order to continue Sheriff's original ...

, where he captained the first XV. He undertook further studies at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

. Purdy, a goal-kicking back-rower, was a regular in the Warwickshire representative sides of the 1950s and 1960s, winning seven country championship titles. In 1962, Purdy won an

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cap as a blind-side wing-forward against

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at Murrayfield, which finished in a 3–3 draw. He competed with hometown club the

Rugby Lions The Rugby Lions RFC, nicknamed ''The Lions'', is an English rugby union club based in Rugby, Warwickshire. The club plays its home matches at Webb Ellis Road. Its developmental squad is known as the Crusaders. The club also has a ladies team ...

until 1964, then switched to Fylde for two and a half seasons, before returning to Rugby in 1967.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Purdy, Stan 1936 births Living people Alumni of the University of Nottingham English rugby union players England international rugby union players Warwickshire County RFU players Rugby union players from Rugby, Warwickshire Rugby union flankers People educated at Lawrence Sheriff School 20th-century English sportsmen

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