Robert Kennedy (rugby union)
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Full nameRobert Day Kennedy
Born14 August 1925
Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Died8 May 1979 (aged 53)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Position
Wing
| Full name | Robert Day Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 14 August 1925 Bulawayo, Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 May 1979 (aged 53) Bulawayo, Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||
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Robert Day Kennedy (14 August 1925 – 8 May 1979) was a Rhodesian rugby union player.
Born in Bulawayo, Kennedy came to England to study at Camborne School of Mines.[1] He captained the school's rugby XV and also turned out for Camborne RFC, while representing Cornwall in county fixtures. In 1949, Kennedy was capped three times for England as a winger in the Five Nations, scoring a try in their win over Scotland.[2]
Kennedy became a prominent mining consultant in Rhodesia. He died in a Bulawayo hospital in 1979 of wounds received in an ambush by nationalist guerrillas two weeks prior, an attack that took place under the backdrop of the Bush War.[3]