Dusty Hare

Dusty Hare

Full name	William Henry Hare
Date of birth	29 November 1952 (1952-11-29) (age 58)
Place of birth	Newark-on-Trent, England
School	Magnus Grammar School
Occupation(s)	Leicester Tigers Chief Scout
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Fullback
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1971 - 1976 1976 - 1989	Nottingham R.F.C. Leicester Tigers	176 394	(1578) (4507)
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1974 - 1984 1983	England British Lions	25	(240)

Personal information
Batting style	Right handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium pace
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1971 - 1977	Nottinghamshire
First-class debut	30 June 1971 Nottinghamshire v Oxford University
Last First-class	25 May 1977 Nottinghamshire v Essex
List A debut	20 August 1972 Nottinghamshire v Northamptonshire
Last List A	25 June 1975 Nottinghamshire v Sussex
Career statistics
Competition	FC	List A
Matches	10	7
Runs scored	171	58
Batting average	12.21	11.6
100s/50s
Top score	36	24
Balls bowled	24
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings
Source: [[1]], 04 December 2008

William Henry "Dusty" Hare MBE (born 29 November 1952) is a former international England rugby union footballer, who played fullback.

Hare currently holds the world record for points scored in a first class rugby career with 7,337 points.

He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School).

Rugby career

Hare played for Nottingham R.F.C. before joining Leicester Tigers and playing for nearly 400 games for them.

He made his England debut 16 March 1974 in a match against Wales, and played his final game ten years later on, having gained 25 caps. He toured with the British Lions to New Zealand in 1983.

He retired from club rugby after the 1989 cup final loss to Bath, and is now the chief scout at Northampton Saints. Previous to this job, Hare was a farmer in South Clifton, Nottinghamshire and had been since a young man carrying on the family business. However, Hare sold the farm in 2001 to take a full time job at Leicester Tigers working for the academy and latterly as head scout.

In January 2010 it was announced that he was to join Northampton Saints.

Cricket career

Hare was also a good cricketer, and he played ten first-class and seven List A matches for Nottinghamshire between 1971 and 1977. He played regularly for the Nottinghamshire Second XI and Under-25s between 1969 and 1978.

See also

• List of top English points scorers and try scorers

References

External links

• Photos, biography & statistics at Sporting-Heroes.net
• Rugby Speakers
• Cricinfo stats
• BBC sport
• Hare's cricket record at CricketArchive

Persondata
Name	Hare, Dusty
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	29 November 1952
Place of birth	Newark-on-Trent, England
Date of death
Place of death

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