George Boots
Welsh rugby union player
Died when: 54 years 180 days (653 months)Star Sign: Cancer
John George Boots (1874–1928) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Newport and county rugby with Monmouthshire.
He won 16 caps for Wales.Boots was seen as a consistent player with a superb positional sense who would tackle hard and smother the loose ball; his passing skill was strong as was his catching and dribbling.
Boots was not a flair player but was a good 'spoiler' and could turn defence into attack, giving backs, such as Nicholls and Lloyd, a platform to run in tries.
Boots had an exceptionally long rugby career, in spite of being on his death bed in 1908 with acute pleurisy.
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