# Alan Wordsworth

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alan_Wordsworth
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alan_Wordsworth.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wordsworth
> Source revision: 1331885838
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{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](/source/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](/source/rugby_union) international.

Wordsworth, born in [Thornton Heath](/source/Thornton_Heath), studied at [Whitgift School](/source/Whitgift_School) and [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University).<ref>{{cite news |title=Whitgift Brothers Link Up |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750583515 |work=[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph) |date=9 January 1976}}</ref>

A fly-half, Wordsworth was capped once for [England](/source/England_national_rugby_union_team), while a member of the squad that [toured Australia in 1975](/source/1975_England_rugby_union_tour_of_Australia). On the bench for the first Test at the [Sydney Cricket Ground](/source/Sydney_Cricket_Ground), Wordsworth got his opportunity after only 13 minutes when fly-half [Neil Bennett](/source/Neil_Bennett_(rugby_union)) had to come off injured.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mauling For Tony |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/808656939 |work=[Sunday Mirror](/source/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.](/source/Cambridge_University_R.U.F.C.) and [Harlequins](/source/Harlequin_F.C.).<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](/source/List_of_England_national_rugby_union_players)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{ESPNscrum|8380}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wordsworth, Alan}}
Category:1953 births
Category:Living people
Category:English rugby union players
Category:England international rugby union players
Category:Rugby union players from the London Borough of Croydon
Category:Sportspeople from Thornton Heath
Category:People educated at Whitgift School
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
Category:Harlequin F.C. players
Category:Rugby union fly-halves
Category:20th-century English sportsmen

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alan Wordsworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wordsworth) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wordsworth?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.