Lukas Strachan

Lukas Cornelius Strachan (12 September 1907 – 4 March 1985) was a South African rugby union international.

[1] Strachan was born in Parys, Orange River Colony, where he left school at the end of 1925.

From 1927 until 1945 he played for the Pretoria Police Club's 1st team, in a total of 432 matches and was their captain from 1932–1945.

Strachan made his test match debut for the Springboks during the 1931–32 tour of Britain and Ireland, against England at Twickenham.

For several years he was the coach of Police and from 1946 to 1966, he served as selector of Northern Transvaal.