{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Sidney Osborne | image = | caption = | full_name = Sidney Herbert Osborne | birth_date = {{birth date|1880|02|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|07|15|1880|02|28|df=yes}} | death_place = Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England | height = | weight = | occupation = Schoolmaster | school = Fettes College | university = University of Oxford | relatives = | position = Forward | repyears1 = 1905 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Sidney Herbert Osborne''' (28 February 1880 – 15 July 1939) was an English international rugby union player.

==Biography== Osborne was educated at Fettes College and the University of Oxford.<ref name="Hampstead">{{cite news |title=Rugby Football Union |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001981/19050304/092/0007 |work=Hampstead & Highgate Express |date=4 March 1905}}</ref>

A forward, Osborne was an Oxford blue and finished on the winning team for all three of his Varsity Match appearances. He also played for Harlequins and was a Middlesex representative player. In 1905, Osborne gained an England cap for a Calcutta Cup match at Richmond.<ref>{{cite news |title=England v. Scotland |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/19050301/112/0004 |work=The Morning Post |date=1 March 1905}}</ref> Scotland won the match, resulting in England placing last on the table.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Wooden Spoon v. the Calcutta Cup |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000986/19050320/021/0002 |work=Athletic News |date=20 March 1905}}</ref> He was a St Bees School house master at the time of his England cap and during this period represented Cumberland.<ref name="Hampstead"/>

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|1712}}

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