Joe Roff
Joe Roff (born 20 September 1975) is an Australian rugby union footballer who played on the wing or at fullback for Brumbies and Australia. He also had a spell at the French club Biarritz and in 2005 at Kubota Spears.
Of his 76 caps, 62 were won in consecutive games from 1996 to 2001.
He was a leading try scorer for Australia and scored the intercept try in the second British Lions Test in 2001 which allowed Australia to win the game. They went on to win the series. He was a blisteringly fast winger and partnered Ben Tune for the Wallabies.
Midway through the super 12 season of 2004 he announced his retirement to be at the end of the 2004 wallabies test series and followed through. His farewell from super 12 rugby was a good one because the Brumbies won the super 12 competition that season. When he retired he decided to go to University in England.
For a time, he attended O'Connor Catholic School in Armidale and also The Armidale School. He was a Student at Marist College Canberra. Joe Roff's father, Glenn Roff, is Principal of St John's College, Woodlawn on the Far North Coast of NSW.
Joe is currently enrolled to start studying at the University of Oxford, UK, in October 2006, where he is reading a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Harris Manchester College. He also made a return to amateur rugby by playing for the Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC), colloquially known as the Dark Blues, representing the Blues in their traditional fixture against Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club at Twickenham Stadium on December 12th 2006. Oxford lost this match 15-6.On January 2007,he won the "United Kingdom-based Young Australian of the Year for 2007"for his services to Australian Rugby in general.[1]