ru_amateurclubs ru_nationalteam death_date death_place birth_place ru_nationalyears ru_nationalcaps height article_title name ru_position birth_date ru_nationalpoints school birth_name ru_amateuryears occupation
richmond leicester tigers eng great britain 15 november 2000 ipswich , england oxford , england 1932 - 1938 1936 14 0 6 ft 2 in on bernard gadney
 bernard gadney scrum-half 16 july 1909 -lrb- 3 -rrb- -lrb- 0 -rrb- dragon school stowe bernard cecil gadney 1929 - 1939 teacher
bernard gadney

bernard cecil gadney -lrb- 16 july 1909 - 15 november 2000 -rrb- was an english rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for leicester tigers , england and the british lions .
gadney won 14 england caps between 1932 and 1938 and was captain on eight occasions .
born in oxford , he was educated at dragon school and stowe .
his brother cyril gadney was an international rugby referee and president of the rfu .
he made his leicester debut in 1929 and went on to make 170 appearances for the club .
he made his england debut v ireland in 1932 , and was appointed captain in 1934 , becoming leicester 's first england captain , and leading england to the triple crown .
in 1936 he led england to a win against the all blacks at twickenham - a game known as obolensky 's game .
later in the same year , he led a great britain team to a 10-0 winning series against .
after retiring from international rugby he became headmaster of malsis school , a prep school .
during the second world war he served as an officer in the royal navy .
shortly after his death , gadney was , along with nick farr-jones inducted into the museum of rugby wall of fame in 2000 - the first to be inducted .
