Colin Walmsley, who plays center on the Dartmouth men’s rugby team, will study anthropology at Oxford University as Dartmouth’s 78th Rhodes Scholar, the university announced. 
 

Following his studies, Walmsley, of Fort Macleod, Canada, hopes to "work as an advocate for human social justice and fairness," according to his Rhodes Scholars profile. 

At the College, Walmsley is an anthropology and government double major. He plays for the rugby team, hosts a weekly radio show on 99 Rock and sings with the Brovertones a capella group. 

Walmsley was one of six Dartmouth rugby players to be named an Academic All-American by USA Rugby for the 2013-14 season, an honor requiring an athlete to be a consistent starter and hold a cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher. 

Walmsley joins an impressive list of American colleges students who have earned Rhodes Scholarships and played rugby at Oxford. Some were rugby players before they went to England, and some only while there.

Former President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton, Georgetown, 1969

West Point Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins, 1959

Donald Grant Herring, Princeton, 1909

Alan Valentina, Swarthmore, 1923

Frederick Hovde, University of Minnesota, 1931

Vincent Jones, Dartmouth, 1954

Kris Kristofferson, Claremont Colleges 1958

Daniel Sachs, Princeton, 1962

Thomas Neville, Yale, 1972

Randolph Love, Sewanee, 1972

Raymond Burse, St. John’s, 1974

Zac Miller, West Point, 2002 (Miller died in a training exercise before he could attend Oxford)

UCLA captain Scott Hugo in 2009

Gregory Lippiat, VMI, 2009