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Full name | Robert Prosser | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tylorstown, Wales | 8 August 1943|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 11 st 7 lb (73 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Scrum-half | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Stand-off, Scrum-half | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert "Rob"/"Bob" Prosser (born 14 November 1943) is a Welsh former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played invitational level rugby union (RU) for Crawshays RFC, and at club level for Coventry R.F.C. and Newport RFC, as a scrum-half, i.e. number 9, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for St. Helens and Salford, as a stand-off, or scrum-half, i.e. number 6, or 7. [1] [3] [4]
Bob Prosser won 4 caps for Wales (RL) in 1968–1970 while at Salford. [1]
Bob Prosser was an unused interchange/substitute, i.e. number 14, in St. Helens' 35-12 victory over Halifax in the Championship Final during the 1965–66 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 28 May 1966, in front of a crowd of 30,165.
Bob Prosser played scrum-half in St. Helens' 0-4 defeat by Castleford in the 1965 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1965–66 season at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Tuesday 14 December 1965.
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