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Norths Rugby
Northern Suburbs Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Sydney, Australia, that was formed in 1900 from the merger of the Pirates and Wallaroos clubs. The club competes in the Shute Shield competition run by the New South Wales Rugby Union. The club has produced 42 Wallaby representatives. The club's home ground is the historic North Sydney Oval on the North Shore of Sydney. The ground has been a venue for both codes of rugby and for cricket over more than a century. Club information :Club Name: Northern Suburbs Rugby Football Club :Nickname: The Shoremen, Norths, The Red and Blacks :Founded: 1900 :Home stadium: North Sydney Oval :Head coach: Zak Beer :Captain: Harry Burey :Vice Captain: Angus Sinclair :Uniform colors: Red & Black :Premiership Titles: 7 (1933, 1935, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1975, 2016) Club history Pre World War One Rugby on the lower North Shore is over 130 years old. Council minutes reveal that the North Shore Football Club played on a paddock adjoining Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Rugby Union
The New South Wales Rugby Union, or NSWRU, is the governing body for the sport of rugby union within most of the state of New South Wales in Australia. It is a member and founding union of Rugby Australia. Within Australia it is considered the strongest Union. It has the largest player base, biggest population, most suburban clubs, and the oldest running club rugby competition in the country. The southern areas of New South Wales encompassing the Monaro, Far South Coast, and Southern Inland unions are not affiliated with the NSWRU. They are now within the ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union. The New South Wales Rugby Union was founded in 1874 as the ''Southern Rugby Union'', before changing to the present name in 1893. Structure Clubs Jurisdiction Due to the merging of Union's by the ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union, the New South Wales Rugby Union does not encompass all of New South Wales. However, it does include major cities and towns, making up roughly two-thirds (and/or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Desmond Hughes
Bryan Desmond Hughes MC (1888 – 6 August 1918) was an Australian soldier and international rugby union player. He was one of a number of Australian rugby internationals who were killed during the First World War. Early life Bryan Hughes was born in Sydney, the son of the Hon. John Francis Hughes and his wife, Mary Rose Gilhooley.''UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914–1921 and 1939–1947'' His elder brother James was also an Australian rugby union representative player. He attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview. Playing as a flanker, Hughes claimed two international rugby caps for Australia. Military service Placed into action during World War I as a second lieutenant with the 8th Battalion, 48th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division, and with the 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Hughes was awarded the Military Cross. He was killed on 6 August 1918, and is buried at the British Cemetery in Borre, Nord, France (Grave II. G. 2). International appearances S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Hutchinson (rugby)
Eric Ebsworth Hutchinson (26 September 1916 – 27 January 1943) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Hutchinson, a lock, was born in Armidale, New South Wales and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia. His brother Frank Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curre ... was also an Australian rugby union representative player. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1916 births 1943 deaths Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II Royal Australian Air Force airmen Australian military personnel killed in World War II Rugby union players from Armidale, New South Wales Rugby union locks {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Gibbons (rugby)
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Walter Mackney
Walter Arthur Reginald Mackney (28 July 1905 – 4 October 1975) was an Australian representative rugby player and rower. He toured South Africa with the Wallabies in 1933 and played in representative rugby sides till 1935. As a rower he was a national champion who competed in the men's eight event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Early life Mackney was born in the Bellingen district of New South Wales. With his father away at war, Mackney left school aged 13 and took a job as a timber-cutter in the Dorrigo timber camps. He learnt to drive a bullock team and then did itinerant farm work in Queensland. At age 20 he came to Sydney and joined the police force. Rugby career Mackney was introduced to rugby through the police force. He joined the Northern Suburbs Rugby Union and made the senior team in 1930. He represented New South Wales against Queensland in 1930, toured South Africa with the Wallabies in 1933 and made his Australian representative debut against the Springboks i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hemmingway
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Tom Perrin
Thomas Drummond Perrin (26 February 1911– 21 April 1975) was an Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies twice.Australian Rugby - The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 460: Perrin, Thomas Drummond (1911–1975) Early life Perrin was born in Summer Hill and attended Newington College (1924–1927).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 155 Club rugby He grew up in Mosman and as a second rower joined Northern Suburbs Rugby Club after leaving school and played in their premiership side in 1933. Representative rugby He toured New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... in 1931 with the Wallabies and played in seven of the ten games played and two tests. References Tom Perrin at espnscrum 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bardsley
Eric ickJohn Bardsley (1903–1958) was an Australian Rugby Union player and represented for the Wallabies three times. Early life Bardsley attended Newington College (1918–1923) and played Rugby in the 1st XV for three years. Rugby career Bardsley played in the back row and represented Northern Suburbs Rugby Club in 139 1st Grade games. In 1928 he toured New Zealand and played in three Test matches. Club controversy In 1942 Bardsley admitted to sending food parcels to Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ... and after his patriotism to Australia was questioned by fellow members of Norths Rugby, he and his brother-in-law, fellow Wallaby Wal Mackney, resigned from the club.Australian Rugby - The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 315: Mackney, Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd King (rugby)
Ernest Sydney "Syd" King (1 August 1873 – 14 February 1933) was an English footballer and manager, and one of the most important figures in the early history of West Ham United. Playing career Born Chatham, Kent and educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys, he started his career as a full back with Northfleet and had been club captain. He once scored three own-goals when playing against Swindon Town. He transferred to New Brompton in 1897 and spent two seasons there before joining Thames Ironworks in 1899. He was considered one of the best full backs in the Southern League and "The Irons" had to immediately turn down Derby County's offer for the player. Syd' King recorded 16 appearances in their first season in the Southern League Division One, also making seven appearances in the FA Cup that year, an impressive run that ended in a 1–2 home defeat against arch-rivals Millwall Athletic. In 1900 he was retained as a member of the squad after the club's transition t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Tarleton
Kenneth Tarleton (30 October 1900 – December 1984) 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. Tarleton, a hooker, was born in North Sydney, New South Wales and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1900 births 1984 deaths Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union hookers {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Shaw (rugby Union, Born 1902)
Colin Hedderick Shaw (c. 1902 – 28 August 1976) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Shaw, a lock, was born in Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ... and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1976 deaths 1900s births Scottish emigrants to Australia Rugby union players from Edinburgh Rugby union locks {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Cooney
Royal Charles Cooney (8 November 1896 – 27 August 1962) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Cooney, a centre, was born in North Sydney, New South Wales North Sydney is a suburb and major commercial district on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia. North Sydney is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governme ... and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1896 births 1962 deaths Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union centres {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |