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Northern Suburbs Rugby Club
Northern Suburbs Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based on Sydney's Lower North Shore, 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 padd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Rugby Union
The New South Wales Rugby Union (NSWRU), formerly known as the Southern Rugby Football Union (SRFU) between 1874 and 1892, is the Sports governing body, governing body of rugby union within most of the state of New South Wales in Australia. It is a member and founding union of Rugby Australia, known as the Rugby Australia, Australian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) at the time of its founding. 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 New South Wales Rugby Union is the Timeline of foundation of national rugby unions, third oldest continuous rugby union ever, behind only the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU). 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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Smith
Lancelot Machattie "Mac" Smith (c. 1885 - March 1956) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Smith, a centre, was born in Bathurst, New South Wales Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Region, Bathurst Regional Council. Founded in 1815, Bathurst is ... and claimed one international rugby cap for Australia, playing against New Zealand, at Dunedin, on 2 September 1905. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1880s births Year of birth uncertain 1956 deaths Rugby union players from New South Wales Rugby union centres Sportspeople from Bathurst, New South Wales New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hemingway
Wilfrid Hubert Hemingway (22 September 1908 — 12 April 1981) was an Australian rugby union international. Hemingway, born in Auckland Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and ..., immigrated to Australia as a young child and attended Sydney Grammar School. A speedy winger, Hemingway attained five Test caps between 1928 and 1932, making his debut aged 19. Hemingway, a solicitor by profession, played first-grade rugby for Sydney University while studying for his law degree and later joined Northern Suburbs, for which he set a club record 101 points in the 1932 season. See also * List of Australia national rugby union players References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hemingway, Bill 1908 births 1981 deaths Australian rugby union players Australia international ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ... in 1931 with the Wallabies and played in seven of the ten games played and two tests. References Tom Perrin at espnscrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bardsley
Eric ickJohn Bardsley (1903–1958) was an Australian Rugby Union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ... 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 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: Mackne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd King (rugby Union)
Sydney Charles King (21 March 1905 — 30 March 1970) was an Australian rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ... international. Educated at Sydney Boys High School, King was their 1st XV captain in 1924 and played halfback on the Combined GPX XV. He played first-grade rugby for Western Suburbs and in 1925 toured New Zealand with New South Wales. King, capped 14 times at Test level, made his international debut playing for New South Wales against a visiting New Zealand XV in 1926, a series of matches which were retrospectively awarded Test status. He played his international rugby as an inside centre, with his defensive game complimenting the more attacking centre partner Cyril Towers. After serving as a state and national selector, King became a sports jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Tarleton
Kenneth Tarleton (30 October 1900 – December 1984) was a rugby union player who represented Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... 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 New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-1900s-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 is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ... 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 New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-1900s-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 Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... Cooney, a centre, was born in North Sydney, New South Wales 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 New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darby Loudon
Darby Briton Loudon (12 March 1897 – c. 1963) was a New Zealand born rugby union player, a flanker who made sixteen representative appearances for the New South Wales state team in the 1920s. Four of these matches have since been decreed as Test matches by the Australian Rugby Union and Loudon, who led the side in one such match in 1922, was therefore a captain of the Australian national team. Rugby career Loudon, was born in Leeston, New Zealand and relocated to Sydney during his youth. He attended Sydney Grammar School and gained entry to Sydney University to study medicine.Howell p74 The Sydney club rugby competition started up again after World War I in 1919 and Loudon was captain of the Sydney University Football Club the premiership winners, also winning himself a University Blue that year. He captained the side in matches against an AIF Rugby XV who toured NSW and Queensland and led by former Wallaby Lieutenant Willie Watson did much to rekindle public attentio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Fox (rugby)
Charlie Fox (27 July 1898 – January 1985) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative second-rower who made 36 appearances for the Wallabies, playing in 17 Test matches and captained the national side on seven occasions (one Test match) in 1925. __TOC__ Representative career Charles Fox was twenty-one years of age and playing for the Glebe-Balmain Club in Sydney when he was selected in 1919 to play in an invitation Australian XV against an AIF side, a match which marked a re-kindling of interest in rugby union in Sydney following WWI. In 1920 he appeared three times for the New South Wales Waratahs against the All Blacks scoring a try in his representative debut. With no Queensland Rugby Union competition in place at that time the New South Wales Waratahs were the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period and a number of Waratah matches of the 1920s played against full international opponents were in 1986 decreed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onslow Humphreys
Oliver W. "Onslow" Humphreys (born c. 1893) was a rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ... player who represented Australia. Humphreys, a fly-half, was born in Sydney and claimed a total of 6 international rugby caps for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union fly-halves New South Wales rugby union team players {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |