{{Short description|South African rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Stanley Osler | image = | caption = | full_name = Stanley Gordon Osler | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|01|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Aliwal North, South Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|04|16|1907|01|31|df=y}} | death_place = Somerset West, South Africa | height = | weight = | occupation = Schoolmaster | school = Kingswood College | university = University of Cape Town<br />University of Oxford | relatives = Bennie Osler (brother) | position = Centre | repyears1 = 1928 | repteam1 = {{nrut|South Africa}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Stanley Gordon Osler''' (31 January 1907 – 16 April 1980) was a South African international rugby union player.
==Biography== Known as "Sharkey", Osler was born in Aliwal North and had Cornish ancestry on his father's side.<ref>{{cite web |title=Did you know? |url=https://www.suidkaapforum.com/News/Article/Local-News/did-you-know-201903141110 |website=Suid-Kaap Forum |language=en |date=16 March 2019}}</ref> He attended Kingswood College and the University of Cape Town, before going to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.<ref>{{cite news |title=Another Springbok for Oxford |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/788549425 |work=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=23 November 1929}}</ref>
Osler gained his only Springboks cap in 1928, as a centre three-quarter against the touring All Blacks at Durban.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sharkey Osler |url=https://bokhist.com/PlayerData.aspx?PlayerID=482 |website=bokhist.com}}</ref> His primary position, fly-half, was occupied by his elder brother Bennie Osler. He gained a rugby blue at Oxford in 1931.<ref>{{cite news |title=Olympian's Diary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/768864368 |work=Evening Standard |date=11 November 1931}}</ref>
From 1947 to 1964, Osler served as headmaster of Kearsney College.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Tribute to Stanley G Osler – Kearsney College Foundation |url=https://www.kearsney.com/foundation/stanley-g-osler/ |website=kearsney.com}}</ref>
==See also== *List of South Africa national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|3553}}
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