BRIAN ‘STACK’ STEVENS (Cornish Pirates, Cornwall, England and Lions tourist)

Died October 10 aged 76
Cornish farmer and a rock of a man who made over 500 appearances for the Cornish Pirates and won 83 Cornwall ‘caps’ as well as playing in 25 internationals for England. He was called up as a replacement on the 1971 Lions tour of New Zealand and was asked to tour with the 1974 Lions but had to decline because he couldn’t afford to be away from his farm for nearly four months.
In one notable two-year period he was a member of the England team that defeated South...