About Jim Reeve
Jim Reeve was a British rugby union player.
James Stanley Roope Reeve (12 September 1908 – 6 November 1936) was an English international rugby union player.
Biography The son of a judge, Reeve was born in Kensington and attended Rugby School, before undertaking further studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He followed his father into law and became a barrister.
Reeve was a long-striding wing three-quarter who was quick off the mark and played his rugby with Harlequins. He featured in a further two matches against the All Blacks, then played the one-off Test in Sydney, and was said to have outpaced Olympic sprinter James Carlton in a fixture against New South Wales.
In 1936, Reeve was killed in a motor accident, at the age of 28.
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