Full name | Samuel Allen Hutton | ||||||||||||||||
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School | Belfast Royal Academy | ||||||||||||||||
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Samuel Allen Hutton is an Irish former international rugby union player.
Educated at Belfast Royal Academy, Hutton was a strong, mobile prop, who played his rugby with Malone. He was only 19-year of age when he earned his first Irish trial and won all four of his Ireland caps in 1967, debuting in the Five Nations match against Scotland at Murrayfield. [1] His final cap came in a win over the Wallabies in Sydney and during the same trip he memorably kicked a drop-goal in a tour match. [2]
Hutton immigrated to South Africa in 1975. [3]
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