Roy Sabine

Roy Sabine

File:Roy Sabine - Duke of Wellington's Regiment Rugby Union Team 1961–62.jpg Pte. R. Sabine (centre three-quarter)
Personal information
Born	England
Playing information
Rugby union
Position	Centre
Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P ≤1962–≥62 "The Dukes"
Rugby league
Position	Stand-off/Five-eighth
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P ≤1959–≥62 Keighley 175 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P Yorkshire
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% Keighley
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org

Roy Sabine is an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s, and coach of the 1970s, playing rugby union (RU) for Duke of Wellington's Regiment ("The Dukes"), as a Centre, i.e. number 12 or 13, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Yorkshire, and at club level for Keighley, as a Stand-off/Five-eighth, i.e. number 6, and coaching at club level for Keighley. Roy Sabine served as a Private with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

Coaching career

Roy Sabine coached Keighley to the 1975–76 Challenge Cup semi-final against St. Helens at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on 3 April 1976.

Honoured at Keighley Cougars

Roy Sabine is a Keighley Cougars Hall of Fame inductee, he was inducted in 1999 alongside Len Ward.

External links

• Search for "Roy" at rugbyleagueproject.org
• Search for "Sabine" at rugbyleagueproject.org
• Duke of Wellington's Regiment Rugby Union Team 1961–62
• The Welshman who kicked an amazing 535 goals for Halifax (Includes photograph of Keighley team in 1962)
• Tribute paid to legend Ward, 85