Joseph Sandford

Joseph Ruscombe Poole Sandford was an English international rugby union player.

Biography

Born in Landkey, Devon, Sandford was the son of Ernest Sandford, the Archdeacon of Exeter.
Sandford attended Marlborough College and Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a rugby blue. He also played rugby for Devon and was capped once for England as a centre three-quarter against Ireland in 1906.
Employed by the Sudan Civil Service, Sandford fell ill and died in Khartoum in 1916, aged 35.