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Bobby Barr (rugby union)

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as Tigers lost 20–3. He featured a further 10 times that season but featured only once the following season as he struggled to break into the team. Returning to the line up on 29 January 1931 he featured in 13 of the last 16 games of the 1930–31 season.
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he was a Territorial Officer in the Leicestershire searchlights unit and was captured at Boulogne. He spent five years as a prisoner of war and when he was repatriated was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he was a vital part of reconstructing
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was unavailable, and captained Tigers for the 1936–37 and 1937–38 seasons. He never scored a try for Leicester in 241 games, a record for games without a try.
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in 1932. He was also one of only two people to have been captain, secretary and president of
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Barr became Leicester's regular stand in captain during 1935, deputising when
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Barr played fullback in Leicestershire and the East Midlands victory over the
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Barr made his Leicester debut on 3 November 1928 against
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debut against the same opposition on 2 January 1932 at
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Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club
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Index

Blisworth
England
Great Oxendon
England
Stamford School
Fullback
Leicester Tigers
England
rugby union
Leicester Tigers
England
Leicester Tigers
Cambridge University
touring South Africans
Test
Twickenham
Wales
St. Helen's in Swansea
Ireland
Lansdowne Road
Bernard Gadney
Second World War
Leicester Tigers
ISBN
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