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1973 Australia Rugby Union Tour Of England And Wales
The 1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe was a series of nine matches played by the Australia national rugby union team (the Wallabies) in England and Wales in October and November 1973. The Wallabies won only of three of their matches, lost five and drew the other one; they lost both of their international matches, against Wales and England. The final match with Italy, is not considered as a capped Test match by Australian Rugby Union. Matches :''Scores and results list Australia's points tally first.'' Touring party * Manager: John Freedman * Assistant manager: Bob Templeton (rugby union), Bob Templeton * Captain: Peter Sullivan (rugby union), Peter Sullivan Backs *Dave Burnet *David L'Estrange *Russell Fairfax *Rod Hauser *John Hipwell *Arthur McGill (rugby union), Arthur McGill *Laurie Monaghan *Geoff Richardson (rugby), Geoff Richardson *Owen Stephens *Jeff McLean (rugby union), Jeff McLean *Peter Rowles *Geoff Shaw (rugby), Geoff Shaw Forwards *Bruce Battishal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia National Rugby Union Team
The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for Australia. The Wallabies first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first Test match (rugby union), test match against the touring British & Irish Lions, British Isles team. Australia has competed in all ten Men's Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. Australia beat England national rugby union team, England at Twickenham Stadium, Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup and won again in 1999 Rugby World Cup, 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France national rugby union team, France. The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina national rugby union team, Argentina, New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand and Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sullivan (rugby Union)
Peter David Sullivan (born 1948) is an Australian former national representative rugby union player. He represented for New South Wales and Australia, captaining the national side on eleven occasions from 1972 to 1973. Early life and rugby Sullivan was schooled at Chatswood Boys High School and played his early rugby at the Forest Rugby Club in Forestville. His senior rugby started in Wollongong and in his first season of first grade and scarcely eighteen he was selected for the Illawarra region and from there he was selected for New South Wales after just six senior games. Howell writes that following state selection at such a young age, he found himself a marked man at club level and "injuries followed, his form deteriorated and his confidence with it"Howell p190 He did not represent again until 1970. In the mid 1970s he coached and was Physical Education teacher at Glenwood Boys High School in Durban South Africa. Representative career In 1969 Sullivan relocated to Sydney a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Battishall
Bruce Robert Battishall (born 3 September 1946) 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 .... Battishall, a flanker, was born in Canterbury, New South Wales and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1946 births Living people Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from Sydney New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Shaw (rugby)
Geoffrey Arnold Shaw (born 27 December 1948) is an Australian former national representative rugby union player who played for and captained the Wallabies. He made state representative appearances for both New South Wales and Queensland over an eleven-year period from 1969. Rugby career From the Illawarra region as a nineteen-year-old Shaw first represented for New South Wales Country against New Zealand in 1968. The following year he debuted for Australia in a Test match against Wales. In that same year 1969, Shaw was selected to tour with the Wallabies on the 1969 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa. Shaw was one of the new boys in the squad and at 20 years old, the youngest. He played in sixteen of the twenty-six matches including one Test match. In 1970 Scotland toured Australia and Shaw went up against them for New South Wales, New South Wales Country and the Wallabies in one Test for a 23–3 victory. In 1971 Shaw played against the British & Irish Lions for N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rowles
Peter George Rowles (born 18 November 1952) is an Australian former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. In union he represented Australia and in league he played in the NSWRFL Premiership for the Western Suburbs and Newtown clubs. Son of record-breaking Manly-Warringah rugby league player Ron Rowles, Peter, a fly-half, was born in Wollongong, New South Wales and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia. Peter Rowles switched to playing rugby league in the mid-1970s, playing 2 seasons of reserve grade with Manly-Warringah before switching to play three seasons with the Western Suburbs Magpies The Western Suburbs Magpies (legal name: Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club Ltd) is an Australian rugby league football club based in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Formed in 1908, Wests, as the club is commonly ... in 1977, 1978 and 1980. In 1978 Rowles set the Western Suburbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff McLean (rugby Union)
Jeffrey James McLean (26 January 1947 — 6 August 2010) was an Australian rugby union international. McLean is the grandson of dual-code international Doug McLean and elder brother of Wallabies fly-half/fullback Paul McLean. Two uncles and a cousin were also capped for the Wallabies. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, McLean attended St Edmund's College, Ipswich and growing up primarily competed in athletics. A member of the Mayne Harriers Athletics Club, McLean specialised in sprint races, with his 10.4 second effort in the 100 metres earning him selection for the Commonwealth Games trials. McLean, a winger, began his rugby career with Brothers Old Boys and was soon chosen to make his representative debut for Queensland. On the back of a two-try performance for Queensland against the touring Springboks in 1971, McLean made his Wallabies debut in Brisbane and gained a total of 13 caps in a three-year international career. He accumulated 85 points on the 1972 tour of New Zeala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Stephens
Owen George Stephens (born 9 January 1947), also known by the nickname of "Noddy", is a New Zealand former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He has the distinction of being one of only three players to have played international rugby union for both New Zealand and Australia. Early life and family Stephens was born in Paeroa in 1947 and educated at Tauranga Boys' College. He is the son of Mortimer Stephens, a rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for Auckland, St. Helens, Rochdale Hornets and Bradford Northern. Rugby union A wing, Stephens played for Bay of Plenty and Wellington at a provincial level in New Zealand, and for the Athletic Rugby Club in Wellington. He won a single test cap for New Zealand, playing in the All Blacks' 19–12 victory over France at Eden Park, Auckland on 10 August 1968. He left New Zealand in 1970 and switched codes to rugby league, but was not successful. He was reinstated bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Richardson (rugby)
Geoffrey Colin Richardson (born 17 April 1949) is an Australian former national representative rugby league and rugby union player – a dual-code international. He played union at fly-half and league at . Rugby union His club rugby was played with the Army Club, Townsville before moving to Brisbane in 1972 and the Teachers club from where he continued to be selected to the Wallabies. His Test debut was against the Springboks in Sydney in July 1971. He represented in nine Tests from 1971 to 1973 and captained Australia in one minor match in 1971.Howell p13 New South Wales teams * Goulburn RUFC (ACT/Monaro Rugby Union) 1968, 69 * ACT Representative Team – NSWCRU Country Week 1968, 69 * New South Wales 1969 Queensland teams * Army Rugby Club (Townsville & District Rugby Union) 1970, 71 * TDRU Representative Team – QCRU Country Carnival 1971 * Queensland Country 1971 * Teachers Rugby Club (Brisbane) 1972, 73 * Queensland 1971, 72, 73 Rugby league Switching to the professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Monaghan
Laurence Edward Monaghan (born 19 May 1951) is an Australian former 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. Monaghan, educated at East Hills Boys High School in Sydney, was a fullback and winger with a skilful kicking game. Capped 17 times for the Wallabies during the 1970s, Monaghan made his debut on the wing against England at Twickenham in 1973. He was later a member of the 1975–76 tour of Britain, Ireland, where he featured in all four Tests against the home nations. On the 1978 Wales tour of Australia, he kicked a famous drop goal for Sydney, from 45-metres and near the sideline, which put them ahead with two minutes remaining. See also * List of Australia national rugby union players References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur McGill (rugby Union)
Arthur Neil McGill (born 5 December 1944) is an Australian former rugby union international. McGill was born in Sydney and attended Drummoyne High School. A fullback, McGill was a Drummoyne first-grade player and started his Wallabies career in 1968, filling the vacancy brought about by Jim Lenehan's retirement. In his second Test appearance, against the All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of New Zealand, which is considered the country's national sport. Famed for th ... at Ballymore, he scored 15 points off his boot to break the Australian individual point scoring record. Despite his record tally, the All Blacks claimed the win with a controversial last minute penalty. He had to withdraw from the squad to tour the British Isles later that year after injuring his knee, but reclaimed his place at fullback to play in 16 successive T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hipwell
John Noel Brian Hipwell (24 January 1948 – 23 September 2013) was an Australian national representative rugby union player who played and captained the Wallabies. He played the majority of his career at scrum half and his representative career spanned 14 seasons from 1968 to 1981. Rugby career Hipwell was a junior and then senior player for the Waratahs Rugby Club in Newcastle NSW where he received tutelage from past Wallaby Cyril Burke. Hipwell's first international game was for NSW Country against the touring British Lions in 1966. He was then selected for the 1966–67 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France although he made no test appearances on that tour. His first Test cap came in 1968 against New Zealand, when he replaced Ken Catchpole who suffered a career-ending injury. He became a regular selection touring to the UK in 1968, South Africa in 1969, France in 1971 and Europe in 1973. In 1973 he was named as captain for the match against Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Hauser
Rodney Graham Hauser (born 31 March 1952) 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 .... Hauser, a scrum-half, was born in Laidley, Queensland and claimed a total of 17 international rugby caps for Australia. During his playing career Hauser was also a Physical Education teacher at St Peter's Lutheran College, Indooroopilly, Queensland. Hauser was once quoted in a newspaper to be the best halfback in the world. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1952 births Living people Rugby union players from Queensland Rugby union scrum-halves People from Laidley, Queensland Queensland rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyunion-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
