{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Alan Wordsworth | image = | caption = | full_name = Alan John Wordsworth | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|11|09|df=y}} | birth_place = Thornton Heath, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Fly-half | repyears1 = 1975 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Alan John Wordsworth''' (born 9 November 1953) is an English former rugby union international.
Wordsworth, born in Thornton Heath, studied at Whitgift School and Cambridge University.<ref>{{cite news |title=Whitgift Brothers Link Up |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750583515 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 January 1976}}</ref>
A fly-half, Wordsworth was capped once for England, while a member of the squad that toured Australia in 1975. On the bench for the first Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Wordsworth got his opportunity after only 13 minutes when fly-half Neil Bennett had to come off injured.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mauling For Tony |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/808656939 |work=Sunday Mirror |date=25 May 1975}}</ref> He picked up an injury himself to rule him out of the second Test in Brisbane.<ref>{{cite news |title=Preece Doubtful: Wyatt Has Chance of Cap |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750581853 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=31 May 1975}}</ref>
Wordsworth played for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. and Harlequins.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wordsworth May Clinch England Place Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750581438 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=25 January 1975}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|8380}}
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