Nick Drake-Lee

Nick Drake-Lee

Birth name	Nicholas James Drake-Lee
Date of birth	(1942-04-07)7 April 1942
Place of birth	Kettering, England
Date of death	22 January 2021(2021-01-22) (aged 78)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1962–68 Leicester Tigers 73 (21) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1963–65 England 8 (3)

Nicholas James Drake-Lee (7 April 1942 – 22 January 2021[1][2]) was a rugby union prop who played 73 games for Leicester Tigers between 1962 and 1968; he represented England 8 times between 1963 and 1965. He was a Cambridge University blue between 1961 and 1963.

Drake-Lee made his Leicester debut against Bath on 6 January 1962 and played 10 times that season.[3]

He was a member of the Cambridge University rugby team in their undefeated 1961 season winning 14 games including the Varsity Match.[4] Before Cambridge, he was a Rugby Vice-Captain at Stonyhurst College.

Drake-Lee made his international debut for England on 19 January 1963 against Wales at Cardiff.[5] He played in all four games as England won the 1963 Five Nations Championship.

References

1. "Nick Drake-Lee". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
2. "RFU PAYS TRIBUTE TO FORMER ENGLAND PROP DRAKE-LEE". 25 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
3. Farmer, Stuart; Hands, David. Tigers - Official history of Leicester Football Club. The Rugby DevelopmentFoundation. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-9930213-0-5.
4. Frank Keating (6 December 2011). "University match greybeards gather to relive timeless battle of '61". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
5. "Wales (0) 6 - 13 (5) England (FT)". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 27 November 2016.