Gordon McGhie (14 October 1907 – c. 1975) 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 its m ...

player who represented

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. He rose to prominence in the late 1920s / early 1930s as a flying winger when the Queensland Rugby Union reformed after a ten-year hiatus. McGhie, a

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, was born in

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, Queensland and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.

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