Terence John Brooke (born 8 October 1940) 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
Surbiton
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, Surrey, Brooke began playing rugby while a Leicester schoolboy. He later attended
Purley County Grammar School. After playing first XV rugby with Warlingham, Brooke moved on to
Richmond
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to advance his career.
Brooke, a long-striding, strongly built centre, made two appearances for
England
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during the
1968 Five Nations Championship, a loss to France at Colombes and win over Scotland at Murrayfield.
See also
*
List of England national rugby union players
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References
External links
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Terry Brookeat
England Rugby
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1940 births
Living people
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Surrey
People from Surbiton
Rugby union centres
Richmond F.C. players
Surrey RFU players
20th-century English sportsmen