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Luther Vye, 79, British field hockey player and Olympian (1956).
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|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. He was also the headmaster of Cabin Hill Preparatory school of Campbell College in Belfast.
Biography
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. He studied at University College, Oxford.
Representing the South and Middlesex, Vye attended the England hockey trials at Felstead School in March 1956. He played club hockey for Hampstead Hockey Club and his position was goalkeeper.
Vye was called up for the Great Britain team before he had earned a cap for England. Vye represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. He was one of the two goalkeepers in the Olympic squad but was back up to first choice David Archer.
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.
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