Rupert George Rosenblum (born 1 January 1942) is a former Australian
Rugby Union
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player for the
Australia national rugby union team
The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against th ...
.
Career
Rosenblum played 3
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* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
...
es in 1969-1970; at that point in time, he and
Myer Rosenblum
Myer E. Rosenblum Order of Australia, OAM (10 January 1907 – 18 April 2002) was an Australian sportsman and lawyer. He was born in South Africa to parents who had migrated from present-day Belarus. His family moved to Sydney, Sydney, Australia ...
were the second* father and son to have represented Australia in Rugby union. The McLeans- Douglas James 1904-05 and Alexander Douglas 1933-36 were the first, despite claims to the contrary.
References
1942 births
Living people
Australia international rugby union players
Australian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
Australian rugby union players
Jewish Australian sportspeople
Jewish rugby union players
People educated at Scots College (Sydney)
Rugby union players from Sydney
Rugby union fly-halves
Eastern Suburbs RUFC players
Sydney University Football Club players
New South Wales rugby union team players
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