{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Victor Harding | image = | caption = | full_name = Victor Sydney James Harding | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|06|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Southwark, London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|11|24|1932|06|18|df=y}} | death_place = | height = 6 ft 3 in | weight = | occupation = | school = {{nowrap|St Marylebone Grammar School}} | university = University of Cambridge | relatives = | position = Lock | repyears1 = 1961–62 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 6 | reppoints1 = 3 }} '''Victor Sydney James Harding''' (18 June 1932 – 24 November 2017) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Southwark, Harding was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, where he won three rugby blues.<ref>{{cite news |title=John Price out of England XV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/880586912 |work=The Guardian Journal |date=23 February 1961}}</ref> He also played rugby for Middlesex, Sale, Saracens and the Edinburgh Wanderers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sale Build Up Their Power Still Further |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/796983486 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=26 August 1961}}</ref>
Harding, a lock, was capped six times by England during the early 1960s while a Saracens player. He debuted against France in the 1961 Five Nations Championship and scored England's only try in a 5–5 draw.<ref>{{cite news |title=New cap Hardings gets the vital try for England |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/848171248 |work=Sunday Mercury |date=26 February 1961}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|6439}} *[https://www.englandrugby.com/england/player-archive/player-info?gender=male&id=EHA25 Victor Harding] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406071408/https://www.englandrugby.com/england/player-archive/player-info?gender=male&id=EHA25 |date=2024-04-06 }} at England Rugby
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