Guy Evers

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Guy Evers
Birth nameGuy Vincent Evers
Date of birth(1874-11-22)22 November 1874
Place of birth Stourbridge, England
Date of death29 May 1959(1959-05-29) (aged 84)
Place of death Stourbridge, England
School Haileybury
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Moseley Rugby Club
Barbarian F.C. 		()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1899 British Isles 3 (0)

Guy Vincent Evers (22 November 1874 – 29 May 1959) [1] was an English international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Moseley. Evers played international rugby for the British Isles on their 1899 tour of Australia

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Personal history

Evers was born in Stourbridge in 1874, the fourth son of Frank Evers and Isobel Smith. He was educated at Haileybury. [2] On returning from his rugby tour of Australia, Evers took up work in Amblecote with E.J. & J. Pearson Ltd., a fireclay mines and works business. In 1902 he was made a director of the company, [3] and remained with the company for his entire working life. In 1926 Evers applied for a British patent, on behalf of the company, for an improved kiln. [4] He was a keen canoeist and in the dedication to William Bliss's "Rapid Rivers" published in 1935, it states "To Guy V. Evers and his Companions who have canoed more English rivers than I have adventured upon". [5]

Rugby career

Evers played club rugby mainly for Moseley, but he was also selected for a Rest of South team to face London and the Universities. [6] In 1899, Evers was invited to join Matthew Mullineux's British Isles team to tour Australia. Evers missed the First Test against Australia, which the tourists lost 13-3. After the defeat, Mullineux dropped himself from the Test team, and brought five new players in for the Second Test at Brisbane, Evers being one of them. After the British Isles beat the Australians in the Second Test, Evers found himself chosen for the final two Tests, both resulting in wins for the tourists.

On returning to Britain, Evers returned to club rugby at Moseley, and in 1902 he was invited to join invitational team the Barbarians. Although representing Britain, Evers was never selected to represent his home nation of England.

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References

  1. ↑ Guy Evers player profile Scrum.com
  2. ↑ "The English Football Team - A letter from Rev M. Mullineaux". The Brisbane Courier. 1 July 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 31 August 2009.
  3. ↑ E.J. & J. Pearson Ltd. Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Industry & Railways of the South West Black Country
  4. ↑ Improvements relating to kilns Archived 18 September 2012 at archive.today wikipatents.com
  5. ↑ Bliss, William (1935). Rapid Rivers. H F & G Witherby.
  6. ↑ Haileybury College, past and present
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