Charles Colbram Eastes MBE (12 July 192521 August 1995) was an Australian

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international.

Early life

A native of

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, Eastes attended Manly Boys' High School and played his junior rugby with local club St. Matthews. He scored 14 tries as a centre in his debut first-grade season for Manly in 1943 before his career was interrupted by war service. During the conflict, Eastes was a Corporal in the

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and had two tours to New Guinea.

Wallabies career

Eastes scored a hat-trick of tries for New South Wales against Queensland in 1946 and was selected for that year's tour of New Zealand with the

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. In his first tour match, against North Auckland, he scored another three tries to earn a Test debut on the left wing against the

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at Carisbrook. He was on the 1947–48 tour of Britain, Ireland and France, but missed the Test matches after fracturing his forearm in a tour match against Newport, attempting a tackle on Ken Jones. He continued to play for the Wallabies until 1949 and was capped six times in total.

Administration

Eastes was first-grade coach and club president of Manly in the early 1960s, then in 1969 was Wallabies team manager on the

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. Awarded an MBE in the

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for services to sport, he had an extensive administrative career in rugby, serving as President of both the Sydney Rugby Union and NSWRU, as well as Vice President of the Australian Rugby Union. He was inducted into the Rugby Australia Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Early life

Wallabies career

Administration

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