Micky Steele-Bodger

Micky Steele-Bodger
Micky Steele-Bodger
Full name Michael Roland Steele-Bodger
Date of birth 4 September 1925 (1925-09-04) (age 86)
Place of birth Tamworth, England
School Rugby School
University Cambridge University, & Edinburgh
Occupation(s) Veterinarian
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Flanker
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Harlequins
Barbarians
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1947–1948  England 9 0

Michael Roland "Micky" Steele-Bodger CBE (born 4 September 1925) is a former English rugby union footballer who played flanker for Harlequins, England and the Barbarians, and is currently the President of the Barbarian Football Club.

His father Harry Steele-Bodger was a noted veterinarian. He was educated at Rugby School, and Cambridge University, and played for Cambridge in The Varsity Match in 1945 and 1946. On graduation he studied at Edinburgh and he represented the Edinburgh University club for two full seasons. Steele-Bodger followed his father by becoming a veterinarian, as did his elder brother Alasdair Steele-Bodger who was also of the Edinburgh University club.

He gained 9 caps for England, playing in all 4 matches in the 1946-47 season and all 5 matches in the 1947-48 season. In his final international, against France in March 1948, Steele-Bodger had to move to scrum-half when Richard Madge left the field, despite suffering from concussion himself.[1] An anterior cruciate ligament injury ended his playing career however in 1949. Subsequently he was a selector for England and the Lions, President of the Rugby Football Union in 1973-74, and Chairman of the International Rugby Board.

References

  1. ^ Griffiths, John (1987). The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. p1:30. ISBN 0-460-07003-7. 

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