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- Full Name
- Dick Young
- Born
- September 16, 1885
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- Virgo
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- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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- Athlete, Cricketer
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Biography
Dick Young is 140 years old, an athlete, from United Kingdom.
Richard Alfred Young (16 September 1885 – 1 July 1968) was an English sportsman who played both cricket and association football for England. As a cricketer he played as a batsman for Cambridge University from 1905 to 1908, and irregularly for Sussex from 1905 to 1925. He represented England in two Test matches on their 1907–08 tour of Australia. Young was a dual international winning a cap for the England amateur international side against Hungary.
Young was born at Dharwad, Kingdom of Mysore in British India in 1885. During World War I, Young would serve in the 6th Gloucesters and would be promoted to a captaincy there, and ultimately to the rank of captain in the main army.
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