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1978 Wales Rugby Union Tour
The 1978 Wales rugby union tour of Australia was a series of nine matches played by the Wales national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1978. The Welsh team won five matches and lost four, including losing both of their international matches against the Australia national rugby union team. Results :''Scores and results list Wales's score first.'' Test matches First test AUSTRALIA: Laurie Monaghan, Paddy Batch, Andrew Slack, Phil Crowe, Martin Knight, Paul McLean, Rod Hauser, Stan Pilecki, Peter Horton, Steve Finnane, Garrick Fay, David Hillhouse, Greg Cornelsen, Mark Loane, Tony Shaw (c) WALES: J. P. R. Williams, Gerald Davies, Steve Fenwick, Ray Gravell, J. J. Williams, Gareth Davies, Brynmor Williams, Graham Price, Bobby Windsor, Charlie Faulkner, Geoff Wheel, Allan Martin, Jeff Squire, Derek Quinnell, Terry Cobner (c) Second test AUSTRALIA: Laurie Monaghan, Paddy Batch, Andrew Slack, Phil Crowe, Martin Knight, Paul McLean, Rod Hauser, Stan Pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales National Rugby Union Team
The Wales national rugby union team ( cy, Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) represents Wales in men's international rugby union. Its governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), was established in 1881, the same year that Wales played their first international against England. The team plays its home matches at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Principality Stadium), which replaced Cardiff Arms Park as the national stadium of Wales in 1999. Wales has competed annually in the Six Nations Championship (previously the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations Championship) since it was established in 1883. They have won the tournament (and its predecessors) outright 28 times, most recently in 2021. Since 2005, Wales has been the most successful team in the Six Nations, winning six Six Nations titles. They include four Grand Slams, again more than any other side. Wales has also participated in every Rugby World Cup since the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as, Australian rules football and occasionally for rugby league, rugby union and association football. It is the home ground for the New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales Blues cricket team, the Sydney Sixers of the Big Bash League and the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. It is owned and operated by the Venues NSW, who also hold responsibility for the Sydney Football Stadium (2022), Sydney Football Stadium. History Beginning In 1811, the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, established the second Sydney Common, about one-and-a-half miles (about 2,400m) wide and extending south from South Head Road (now Oxford Street, Sydney, Oxford St) to where Randwick Racecourse is today. Part sandhills, part swamp and situated on the south-eastern fringe of the city, it was used as a rubbish dump in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Shaw (rugby)
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] |
Mark Loane
Mark Edward Loane AM (born 11 July 1954) is an Australian former rugby union football player, who played 89 games for Queensland and 28 Tests for the Wallabies. Described by Bret Harris in his book, ''The Marauding Maroons'', as "the closest thing to a folk hero Queensland has seen", Loane was noted for devastating barging runs and on occasion the game would be won by one of these characteristic bursts. Early life and family The son of a judge who moved around Northern Queensland on judicial matters, Mark Loane was born in Ipswich, Queensland. He first attended Gympie Christian Brothers before being sent St. Joseph's Nudgee College as a boarder. He is married to Elizabeth Loane (née O'Neil) and has two daughters. Rugby career Loane's senior rugby started in 1973 at the University of Queensland Rugby Club where he was coached by former Wallabies, Jules Guerassimoff and Chilla Wilson. State and national coach Bob Templeton was closely involved at the club. Loane came to Templet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Cornelsen
Greg Cornelsen (born 29 August 1952 in Sydney) is a former Australian rugby union footballer, who was capped 25 times for the national team, the Wallabies from 1974 to 1982. His usual position was as flanker. Career Greg played Australian schoolboys rugby in 1969. The team toured South Africa at the invitation of Danie Craven. Greg was one of two boys selected in this team from The Armidale School, the other was Brian Hayward. Cornelsen made his international debut for Australia at just 21 years of age, when the Wallabies took on the All Blacks in 1974 in Brisbane, which resulted in a 16-all draw. He was subsequently capped in the following match in Sydney, in which the All Blacks won 16 to 6. He next played for Australia against Japan in Brisbane, which the Wallabies won 50 to 25. Over the following two seasons, he played in matches against Scotland, Wales, England and France. All were in Europe and the Wallabies had a tougher time winning. In 1978, Cornelsen played two ... [...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] |
Steve Finnane
Stephen Charles "Steve" Finnane (born 3 July 1952) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Finnane, a prop A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or screen by actors during a performance or screen production. In practical terms, a prop is considered to be anything movable or portable on a stage or a set, distinct ..., was born in Sydney and claimed a total of six international rugby caps for Australia. He was dubbed the ''phantom puncher'', for a short right uppercut delivered to Welsh player Graham Price in a scrum during a 1978 Test match between the Wallabies and Wales at the SCG, which smashed the Welshman's jaw. The Wallaby later wrote in a book that he hit Price. The Wales match proved to be Finnane's last for Australia: although he was selected for the 1979 tour of New Zealand, he declined, choosing to focus on his professional career as a barrister. References SMH 22 August 2010 Australian rugby union players Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Pilecki
Stanislaw Pilecki (4 February 1947 – 20 December 2017) was an Australian rugby union player with Polish roots. He was born in a refugee camp in Augustdorf, Germany, with his family emigrating to Australia in 1950. He was also an Old Boy of Marist College Rosalie in Brisbane. Pilecki was the first player to play 100 matches for Queensland Reds, playing 122 matches in total. Pilecki also played 18 tests, and was the first player of Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ... descent to play for Australia. The Pilecki Medal is an award given to the Queensland Reds player of the year each season. ReferencesStan Pilecki at Reds Rugby [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Hauser
Rodney Graham Hauser (born 31 March 1952) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Hauser, a scrum-half, was born in Laidley, Queensland Laidley is a rural town and locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Laidley had a population of 3,808 people. Geography Laidley is situated within the Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland east o ... and claimed a total of 15 international rugby caps for Australia. During his playing career Houser was also a Physical Education teacher at St Peter’s Lutheran College, Indooroopilly, Queensland. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1952 births Living people Rugby union players from Queensland Rugby union scrum-halves People from Laidley, Queensland {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Crowe (rugby Union)
Philip John Crowe (born 27 October 1955) is an English-born Australian surgical oncologist, and a former first-class cricketer and rugby union international. Crowe was born at Westminster in October 1955 and moved to Australia as a child. He was educated at The Scots College, before going up to the University of Sydney where he studied at the Sydney Medical School. He played rugby union for Sydney University Football Club, coached by Jack Potts, debuting in 1975 as a wing. Having not played for either the New South Wales Waratahs or Sydney representative teams, Crowe was selected to tour France and Italy with Australia in 1976, making his Test match debut against France at Paris. He played five further Test's for Australia, with his final appearance coming against Argentina at Buenos Aires. His career highlight was scoring the winning try against Wales in 1978, while his career low was breaking an ankle in a club match in the same which ruled him out of the tour to New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Slack
Andrew Gerard Slack (born 24 September 1955 in Brisbane) is an Australian former state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in 19 Test matches in between 1984 and 1987. His 133 appearances for Queensland between 1975 and 1987 stood as the state record until bettered by Mark Connors in 2006. He made 87 total appearances for Australia between 1978 and 1987, earning 39 Test caps. He scored 10 tries and captained Australia on 34 occasions in total. He was the tour captain for the Wallabies' 1984 tour Grand Slam feat. Early rugby Andrew Slack attended school at Villanova College, Coorparoo, Queensland. He played his club rugby with Brisbane Souths and made his Queensland state debut against a Combined Services side, as a five-eighth at age 19 in 1975 before switching to centre for the rest of his career. Playing career Slack debuted for Australia in 1978 in the home series against Wales which the Wallabies won 2-nil under Tony Shaw. Slack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Australia
Rugby Australia Ltd, previously named the Australian Rugby Union Limited and Australian Rugby Football Union Limited, is an Australian company operating the premier rugby union competition in Australia and teams. It has its origins in 1949. It is a member of World Rugby. Rugby Australia has eight member unions, representing each state and the Australian Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory. It also manages national representative rugby union teams, including the Wallabies (rugby union), Wallabies and the Australia women's national rugby union team, Wallaroos. History Until the end of the 1940s, the New South Wales Rugby Union, as the senior rugby organisation in Australia, was responsible for administration of a national representative rugby team, including all tours. However, the various States and territories of Australia, state unions agreed that the future of rugby in Australia would be better served by having a national administrative body and so the Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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