Edmund George "Eddie" Broad (3 January 1921 – c. 1993) 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

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. Broad, a

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, was born in

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, Queensland and claimed one international rugby cap for Australia. He was selected in the 1947–48 Australia rugby union tour of the British Isles, Ireland, France and North America where he played in tour matches but no Tests.

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