Dietlof Siegfried Maré was a South Africa

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 player. Born in Wellington

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, he attended Huguenot College before playing provincial rugby for Transvaal (now known as the Golden Lions

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). He made his only Test

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 appearance for South Africa

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 during their 1906–07 tour of Britain, Ireland and France. He played as a forward in the 1st Test of the tour, a 6–0 loss to Scotland

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 at Hampden Park

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. Despite breaking two fingers after six minutes, he played the entire match. Off the field, he wrote the first handbook on rugby ever to be published in Afrikaans

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. In 1913, in Pretoria, Maré was killed in a car accident at the age of 28. As a result of the accident his wife used a wheelchair.