A winger, normally an outside-left, Greene made his county début for Yorkshire in 1946. He went on to win representative honours with the North, Army, Combined Services, England and Great Britain. He made his England début against Wales 1948, and went on to win 11 more caps. Greene joined the Royal Engineers in 1943 and was a warrant officer at the School of Military Engineering in Ripon before transferring to Chatham, when he then played club hockey for Brighton, and later Chichester. He also played county hockey for Sussex, and continued playing for the county until 1957. In the Army, he rose to the rank of regimental sergeant major.
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