Stuart Grant Macdougall (born 1 June 1947) is a former Australian

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player who represented for the

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eight times.Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 300: Macdougall, Stuart Grant (1947 – )

Early life

Macdougall was born in

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and attended

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(1955–1966).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 130 He played his early club Rugby with

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Representative career

At the age of twenty-three, MacDougall was selected to represent

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against

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. The following year he played in his first

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against against a back drop of anti-apartheid

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. On this occasion he marked the

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captain

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. He toured England in 1973–74 and played three tests against in 1974. He played his three final tests against England, two at home in 1975 and once on the 1975-76 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland. His brother Graeme was also an Australian rugby union representative player whose club career was played at

References

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