Dietlof Maré

Dietlof Maré

Full name	Dietlof Siegfried Maré
Date of birth	(1885-07-02)2 July 1885
Place of birth	Wellington, South Africa
Date of death	14 October 1913(1913-10-14) (aged 28)
Place of death	Pretoria, South Africa
School	Huguenot College
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Forward
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
	Transvaal
correct as of 19 July 2010.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1906	South Africa	1	(0)
correct as of 19 July 2010.

Dietlof Siegfried Maré (2 July 1885 – 14 October 1913) was a South African international rugby union player. Born in Wellington, he attended Huguenot College before playing provincial rugby for Transvaal (now known as the Golden Lions). He made his only Test appearance for South Africa during their 1906–07 tour of Britain, Ireland and France. He played as a forward in the 1st Test of the tour, a 6–0 loss to Scotland at Hampden Park. Despite breaking two fingers after six minutes, he played the entire match.^[1] Off the field, he wrote the first handbook on rugby ever to be published in Afrikaans. In 1913, in Pretoria, Maré was killed in a car accident at the age of 28. As a result of the accident his wife used a wheelchair.^[2][3]

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