Keith Charles "Arch" Winning (1928 – 2003) was an Australian national representative

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player for Australia. He captained the national side in the sole Test match appearance he made.

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Born in

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Winning's early rugby was played at Brisbane Grammar and at the

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. He burst onto the representative scene in 1947 at aged 19 playing for

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. Howell asserts that Winning was a surprise selection in the squad for the

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Howell pp133-5 that year. Squad captain

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and Colin Windon were the senior flankers in the squad with Jimmy Stenmark and John Fuller also picked. Winning beat out Roger Cornforth for a tour berth but a debilitating groin injury restricted him greatly and he played in only eight matches of the tour, none of them Tests. In 1951 Winning was selected to captain Australia in a Test match against the

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in Sydney. He backed up a week later in an Australian XV in a match in which his jaw was badly broken. That match marked the end of his national representative career although he appeared again for Queensland through to 1953. Winning died at a Wallaby reunion lunch in 2003.

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