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Veteran Canada hooker Ray Barkwill retires due to medical reasons
Ray Barkwill always wanted to play rugby for Canada, marking it down as a goal in his high school yearbook.
But the hard-nosed hooker from Niagara Falls, Ont., had to wait until he was 32 to win his first cap.
Barkwill, 38, has been a constant ever since. Coach Kingsley Jones estimates that of the 61 or 62 Canada matches since Barkwill’s debut, the hooker played in 55 of them.