{{Infobox rugby biography | name = Charles Sample | image = | caption = | full_name = Charles Hubert Sample | birth_date = {{birth date|1862|11|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Castle Ward, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|06|02|1862|11|22|df=yes}} | death_place = Corbridge, England | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Fullback | repyears1 = 1884–86 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 3 | reppoints1 = }} '''Charles Hubert Sample''' (22 November 1862 – 2 June 1938) was an English international rugby union player.

Sample was born in Castle Ward and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/812032280 |work=Uxbridge and West Drayton Gazette |date=10 June 1938}}</ref>

A fullback, Sample was described by the ''Football Annual'' as a player who was "good at extracting his side from a dilemma", possessing good drop kicking and tackling abilities.<ref>{{cite news |title=Athletic Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/801765576 |work=The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle |date=17 October 1885}}</ref> He was a Cambridge University blue, represented Northumberland, and was capped three times for England from 1884 to 1886.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oxford v. Cambridge (R) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/785414081 |work=Cambridge Weekly News |date=13 December 1884}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Northumberland v. Cheshire |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/799498413 |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |date=28 January 1884}}</ref>

==See also== *List of England national rugby union players

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|669}}

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