Luther Vye
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
19 April 1924 Christchurch, Dorset, England | ||
| Died |
10 May 2003 (aged 79) Dorset, England | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1955–1956 | Hampstead | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| Great Britain | |||
| England | |||
Charles Luther Vye (19 April 1924 – 10 May 2003) was a field hockey player who was selected for Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1] He was also the headmaster of Cabin Hill Preparatory school of Campbell College in Belfast.[2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Vye was born to a hockey family, all three of his brothers William (b.1922), Michael (b.1926) and Philip (b.1927) played for Bournemouth at club level and at county level for Hampshire.[3] He studied at University College, Oxford.
Representing the South and Middlesex, Vye attended the England hockey trials at Felstead School in March 1956.[4] He played club hockey for Hampstead Hockey Club and his position was goalkeeper.[5]
Vye was called up for the Great Britain team before he had earned a cap for England.[6] Vye represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.[7] He was one of the two goalkeepers in the Olympic squad but was back up to first choice David Archer.[8]
In 1967, he took the post of headmaster at the Cabin Hill Preparatory school of Campbell College in Belfast, where he remained for many years until 1983.[9]
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