Stuart Grant Macdougall (born 1 June 1947) is a former Australian

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player who represented for the

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eight times.Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 300: Macdougall, Stuart Grant (1947 – )

Early life

Macdougall was born in

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and attended

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(1955–1966).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 130 He played his early club rugby with

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Representative career

At the age of twenty-three, MacDougall was selected to represent

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against

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. The following year he played in his first test match against against a back drop of anti-apartheid

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. On this occasion he marked the

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captain Hannes Marais. He toured England in 1973–74 and played three tests against in 1974. He played his three final tests against England, two at home in 1975 and once on the 1975-76 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland. His brother Graeme was also an Australian rugby union representative player whose club career was played at

References

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