Herbert Loveitt

Herbert Loveitt
Birth name	Herbert Arthur Loveitt
Date of birth	8 March 1874
Place of birth	Easenhall, Warwickshire, Great Britain
Date of death	18 February 1909 (aged 34)
Place of death	Coventry, Great Britain
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Full-back
Senior career
Years	Team
?	Coventry RFC
Men's rugby union
Representing File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Olympic Games

Herbert Arthur Loveitt (8 March 1874 – 18 February 1909) was a British rugby union player.^[2] He competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics and won silver as part of the Great Britain team in what was the first rugby union competition at an Olympic Games.^[1]^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Herbert Loveitt". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
↑ "Herbert Loveitt". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
↑ Live, Coventry (18 March 2009). "Forgotten story of Coventry and Warwickshire's first Olympic heroes". CoventryLive. Retrieved 10 April 2022.

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