Sydney Morse
| Full name | Sydney Morse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 June 1854 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Birmingham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 January 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | (registered in) Kensington (aged 74 years 240 days) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Marlborough College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Fullback | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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Law Club Marlborough Nomads |
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1873-1875 |
 England
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Sydney Morse was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875.
Sydney Morse was born on 1 June 1854 in Birmingham. He was the son of Rev Francis Morse, MA, and his wife Clarissa Catharine Morse. Francis, at the time of Sydney's birth, was the incumbent of the parish of St John's Church, Ladywood Birmingham. Francis was the son of Thomas Morse, of Flixton, near Lowestoft, and was born in 1819, and educated at Shrewsbury Grammar and St Johns College, Cambridge. Sydney had ten siblings among whom were Catharine Elizabeth (b. 1850), Clara (b. 1851), Edward St John Morse (b 1852), Harold (b. 1860), Harriet Emily (b. 1864), Winifred Mary, (b. 1868) and Margaret Ellinor, (b. 1870). Sydney, like his older brother Edward, attended Marlborough College.
Morse played rugby at Marlborough College and went on to play for the school's old boys club in London, the Marlborough Nomads. However, he also played for the Law Club, a club open only to members of the legal profession, and it was whilst registered as a Law Club player that he won his first cap on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow in the Scotland vs England match. In total, he played three matches for his national side, the final two being registered as a Marlborough Nomads player. He played his final match for England on 8 March 1875 at Edinburgh against Scotland. He was described as "a dashing runner and good drop with either foot." Sydney's older brother, Edward St John Morse, played in the first meeting of Oxford and Cambridge match on 10 February 1872, representing Cambridge University, a game won by Oxford by a goal (from a try by Isherwood) to nil.
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