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Keith Savage (rugby union)

English rugby union footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ6384988 ↗
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Keith Frederick Savage (born 24 August 1940) is a former England international rugby union player.

He was capped thirteen times on the wing for England between 1966 and 1968. He scored one try for England. He was selected for the 1966 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand and the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa. He did not play in any international matches on the 1966 tour but did play in all four internationals against South Africa in 1968.He is Lion number 453

He played club rugby for Northampton and Leamington RFC.

Savage is now an English teacher in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Keith Savage (rugby union)” as english rugby union footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1966, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Keith, Savage and rugby can be independently traced.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6384988. The first chronological checks are 1940, 1966 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keith Savage (rugby union)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.