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1973 Australia Rugby Union Tour Of Europe
The 1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe was a series of nine matches played by the Australia national rugby union team (the Wallabies) in England and Wales in October and November 1973. The Wallabies won only of three of their matches, lost five and drew the other one; they lost both of their international matches, against Wales and England. The final match with Italy, is not considered as a capped Test match by Australian Rugby Union Matches :''Scores and results list Australia's points tally first.'' Touring party * Manager: John Freedman * Assistant Manager: Bob Templeton * Captain: Peter Sullivan Backs *Dave Burnet *Rex l'Estrange *Russell Fairfax * Rod Hauser * John Hipwell *Arthur McGill *Laurie Monaghan * Geoff Richardson * Owen Stephens * Jeff McLean *Peter Rowles * Geoff Shaw Forwards * Bruce Battishall * Chris Carberry *Dick Cocks * Garrick Fay *Mick Freney *Ron Graham *Stuart Gregory * Jake Howard * Stuart Macdougall *Ken McCurrach * Tony Shaw *Reg Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia National Rugby Union Team
The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team. Australia have competed in all nine Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. Australia beat England at Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France. The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations. More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Fairfax
Russell Lance Fairfax (born 29 March 1952, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former Rugby Union and Rugby League player. A precocious talent, he played his first rugby international while still at school. Having played eight tests for the Wallabies, he moved to Rugby League's Eastern Suburbs Roosters in 1974. Following his retirement from Rugby League, Fairfax coached in the 1989 and 1990 seasons. Early life Russell Fairfax, whose father was in the Australian Army, grew up in Sorrento, Victoria, where he played Australian football. The family moved to Ipswich, Queensland, where he played rugby league, before moving to Sydney. Fairfax attended Matraville High School and played for La Perouse and Alexandria Rovers rugby league clubs in his junior years, before joining the Randwick club to play rugby union. Playing at fullback he represented Australian Schools on their tours of South Africa (1969) and New Zealand (1970). Football career From 1971-73, Fairfax p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Shaw (rugby Union)
Anthony Alexander Shaw is an Australian former rugby union player. A Queensland state and national representative flanker, Shaw captained the national side consistently from 1978 to 1981. Early life and style Tony Shaw was born 23 March 1953 in Brisbane, Queensland. His early rugby was played at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane. He was a proficient water-polo player and represented for Queensland in that sport. Shaw's greatest rugby success was achieved at flanker, he was a hard driving forward who lead from the front and was an outstanding rucker and mauler. Howell asserts that although the standard of Australian representative sides during the early 1970s was less than consistently world-class, Shaw would have been competitive in the best All Black packs of that and any other era. Howell regards him as a cunning line-out technician who could outwit taller and more spring-heeled opponents. Queensland packs containing Shaw and Mark Loane dominated their New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Macdougall
Stuart Grant Macdougall (born 1 June 1947) is a former Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies eight times.Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 300: Macdougall, Stuart Grant (1947 – ) Early life Macdougall was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1955–1966).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 130 He played his early club Rugby with St George. Representative career At the age of twenty-three, MacDougall was selected to represent New South Wales against Queensland. The following year he played in his first test match against against a back drop of anti-apartheid demonstrations. On this occasion he marked the Springbok captain Hannes Marais. He toured England in 1973–74 and played three tests against in 1974. He played his three final tests against England, two at home in 1975 and once on the 1975-76 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland. His brother Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Howard
John Leslie Patrick "Jake" Howard (30 August 194511 December 2015) was an international rugby footballer who played prop for Australia. Howard was schooled at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill from 1957 ''Cerise & Blue obituary Mar2016 and enjoyed enormous schoolboy sporting success playing in the college's 1st XV in four consecutive years 1960–63 and rowing in the 1st VIII for three years. He played his club rugby at Sydney University and took up rowing at the senior level with the Sydney Rowing Club.''SJC News'', article by James Gray p13 He stroked a junior VIII for the club in 1964 and stroked a coxed pair to a state championship in the 1964/65 season. Howard made his international rugby debut on 6 June 1970 against Scotland and went on to make six further international representative appearances between 1970 and 1973. His final Test appearance was on the 1973 tour of Wales and England. He coached rugby at the Sydney University club, at the University of Queensland's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrick Fay
Garrick Fay (b. 11 April 1948 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian businessman and former international rugby player. Garrick was a member of the Australian national team from 1971-79. International rugby career Garrick Fay began his international rugby career with the Australian Wallabies in 1971 with his first game against the South African Springboks. He was invited to play in a number of teams including the Scottish Rugby Union Centenary in 1973, and the Irish Rugby Union Centenary in 1974. He was selected as captain of the Rugby World XV side in the centenary celebrations for Cardiff Rugby Club in 1977 and was selected in a world XV to play in South Africa in 1978. Australia rugby union team Garrick's first cap for Australia was on 31 July 1971 at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground against South Africa during their controversial tour of Australia. Due to the more experienced second row of the South African side, Fay was dropped for subsequent games and rejoined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Carberry
Christopher Michael Carberry (born 27 April 1951) was a rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ... player who represented Australia. Carberry, a hooker, was born in Sydney and claimed a total of 13 international rugby caps for Australia. References Published sources * Howell, Max (2006) ''Born to Lead – Wallaby Test Captains (2005)'' Celebrity Books, New Zealand Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Living people Rugby union hookers 1951 births Rugby union players from New South Wales {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Battishall
Bruce Robert Battishall (born 3 September 1946) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Battishall, a flanker, was born in Canterbury, New South Wales Canterbury is a suburb extending across south-western Sydney and the Inner West, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Canterbury is located south-west of the Sydney central business district in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown. The fo ... and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1946 births Living people Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from Sydney {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Shaw (rugby)
Geoffrey Arnold Shaw (born 27 December 1948) is an Australian former national representative rugby union player who played for and captained the Wallabies. He made state representative appearances for both New South Wales and Queensland over an eleven-year period from 1969. Rugby career From the Illawarra region as a nineteen-year-old Shaw first represented for New South Wales Country against New Zealand in 1968. The following year he debuted for Australia in a Test match against Wales. In that same year 1969, Shaw was selected to tour with the Wallabies on the 1969 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa. Shaw was one of the new boys in the squad and at 20 years old, the youngest. He played in sixteen of the twenty-six matches including one Test match. In 1970 Scotland toured Australia and Shaw went up against them for New South Wales, New South Wales Country and the Wallabies in one Test for a 23–3 victory. In 1971 Shaw played against the British & Irish Lions for New Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rowles
Peter George Rowles (born 18 November 1952) is an Australian former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. In union he represented Australia and in league he played in the NSWRFL Premiership for the Western Suburbs and Newtown clubs. Son of record-breaking Manly-Warringah rugby league player Ron Rowles, Peter, a fly-half, was born in Wollongong, New South Wales and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia. Peter Rowles switched to playing rugby league in the mid-1970s, playing 2 seasons of reserve grade with Manly-Warringah before switching to play three seasons with the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1977, 1978 and 1980. In 1978 Rowles set the Western Suburbs club's record for most points in a season with 215 (8 tries, 94 goals, 3 field goals). He switched to Newtown Jets The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west. They currently compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff McLean (rugby Player)
Jeffrey James McLean (26 January 1947 — 6 August 2010) was an Australian rugby union international. McLean is the grandson of dual-code international Doug McLean and elder brother of Wallabies fly-half/fullback Paul McLean. Two uncles and a cousin were also capped for the Wallabies. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, McLean attended St Edmund's College, Ipswich and growing up primarily competed in athletics. A member of the Mayne Harriers Athletics Club, McLean specialised in sprint races, with his 10.4 second effort in the 100 metres earning him selection for the Commonwealth Games trials. McLean, a winger, began his rugby career with Brothers Old Boys and was soon chosen to make his representative debut for Queensland. On the back of a two-try performance for Queensland against the touring Springboks in 1971, McLean made his Wallabies debut in Brisbane and gained a total of 13 caps in a three-year international career. He accumulated 85 points on the 1972 tour of New Zealand ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Stephens
Owen George Stephens (born 9 January 1947), also known by the nickname of "Noddy", is a New Zealand former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He has the distinction of being one of only three players to have played international rugby union for both New Zealand and Australia. Early life and family Stephens was born in Paeroa in 1947 and educated at Tauranga Boys' College. He is the son of Mortimer Stephens, a rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for Auckland, St. Helens ( Heritage № 429), Rochdale Hornets and Bradford Northern ( Heritage №). Rugby union A wing, Stephens played for Bay of Plenty and Wellington at a provincial level in New Zealand, and for the Athletic Rugby Club in Wellington. He won a single test cap for New Zealand, playing in the All Blacks' 19–12 victory over France at Eden Park, Auckland on 10 August 1968. He left New Zealand in 1970 and switched codes to rugby league, but was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
