STACK Stevens – a Cornish legend who helped England to Test wins in South Africa and New Zealand and toured with the 1971 Lions – died earlier this week at 77.
He is fondly remembered by all, not least his old front row partner in crime for years, Roger Harris, who acted as minder when the great man ventured forth from his beloved Penzance to the big smoke on England duty.
The first came at the swish Lensbury club the day before Stevens’ England debut when Harris, perennially England’s reserve hooker behind John Pullin, was trying to show him the ropes:
“I ran ...