About Geoff Hosking
Lived 1922 – 1991 (aged 68). Geoff Hosking was a rugby union player.
Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.
Hosking was born in Exeter and educated at Cheltenham College.
A captain with the Royal Marines, Hosking played rugby for the Navy, as well as Plymouth club Devonport Services.
Hosking was capped five times by England as a lock in the 1949 and 1950 Five Nations campaigns. It was later discovered that he had been playing with a broken back through his England career, which required surgery.
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Geoff Hosking was born on 11 March 1922.
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Geoff Hosking died on 13 January 1991.
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Geoff Hosking was a rugby union player.
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