Eric de Courcy "Mike" Gibbons (20 October 1913 — 20 August 1962) was an Australian
rugby union international.
Born in Sydney, Gibbons was a product of St. Leonard's Grammar School.
Gibbons, a 165 cm scrum-half, won a first-grade premiership with Northern Suburbs Rugby Club, Northern Suburbs in 1933, scoring a decisive try in the grand final. He featured in another premiership in 1935 and made his NSW representative debut that year against Queensland. In 1936, Gibbons was called up by the Australia national rugby union team, Wallabies for the 1936 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, tour of New Zealand, playing in all three Tests, two against the All Blacks and one against NZ Maori. He was recalled after three years to vice captain the Wallabies on the 1939–40 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland, 1939–40 tour of Britain, but the trip had to be abandoned two days after they arrived, with war declared on Germany.
See also
*List of Australia national rugby union players
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1913 births
1962 deaths
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Sydney
Rugby union scrum-halves
Northern Suburbs Rugby Club players