Michael A. Murray (born 17 January 1962) is an Australian former international
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.
Raised in Sydney, Murray picked up rugby union at
St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
St Joseph's College (abbreviated as SJC and commonly called ''Joeys'') is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition, located in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Sh ...
, where he won their award as the best forward in both 1979 and 1980, playing as a lock. He was an Australian Schools and
under-21s representative. After joining
Randwick
Randwick is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Randwick is located 6 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government ar ...
, Murray transitioned into the front row and became a specialist loosehead.
Murray made his
New South Wales
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debut in 1985 and the following year gained a
Wallabies
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call up for their tour of New Zealand. Over the course of the tour, Murray featured in seven fixtures, while for the Tests would be restricted to the bench. There were no further international opportunities for Murray, but he remained an important player for Randwick, co-captaining their 1990 and 1991 premiership teams.
He also captained NSW during their 1991 tour of Argentina.
See also
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List of Australia national rugby union players
List of Australia national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Australia national rugby union team.
Note that the "position" column lists the position at which the player made his Test debut, not necessarily the posit ...
References
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1962 births
Living people
Australian rugby union players
Australia international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Sydney
Rugby union props
New South Wales rugby union team players
Randwick DRUFC players
People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
20th-century Australian sportsmen