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2 unusual facts about Australia national rugby union team


Australia national rugby team

Australia national rugby union team, often nicknamed the Wallabies, administered by the Australian Rugby Union.

William George Garrard

Garrard was honorary secretary to the Canterbury Rugby Football Union and in 1899 he officiated his first international rugby match when he refereed the First Test between Australia and the British Isles during the teams 1899 tour.


Balmoral Burn

Created by Wallaby great Phil Kearns, the first Burn was ran in 2000, and now an annual event run in May/June each year.

Bob Egerton

He worked as a Biology teacher at the Sydney Grammar School but left in 2010 to take up the position as Team Manager of the Wallabies

Clive Rees

He won his first cap for Wales in 1973, the year he started playing for London Welsh, and played in the Welsh side that beat Australia in 1975.

Coenraad Frederik Strydom

Strydom took part in the first two Tests of the tour, a pair of victories over Australia in Sydney and Brisbane.

Craig Wickes

The selection policy for this match excluded all players who had played against Australia and France earlier in the season.

Des Connor

Desmond Michael Connor (born 9 August 1935 in Ashgrove, QLD) is an Australian former rugby union halfback who represented internationally for both the Australian and New Zealand national rugby union teams.

Ezequiel Jurado

He had 28 caps for Argentina, scoring 6 tries, 30 points on aggregate, from the 53-7 loss to Australia, at 30 April 1995, in Brisbane, in a friendly game, to the 26-36 loss to Wales, at 5 June 1999, in Buenos Aires, in another friendly game.

Gareth Delve

In February 2011 Delve was appointed Rebels' vice captain, deputy to former Wallaby captain Stirling Mortlock.

Ian Madigan

In the November end of year internationals, he made a further three substitute appearances against Samoa, Australia, and New Zealand; a dramatic encounter in which Ireland were denied an historic first-ever win over the All Blacks in the final minute of the Test match.

Jim Hetherington

Hetherington, a talented fullback made his international debut on 1 February 1958, against Australia at Twickenham.

Jonathan Webb

He participated in both the 1987 and 1991 Rugby World Cups; in the 1991 World Cup final he kicked England's only points in their 12–6 loss to Australia.

Lewis Roberts-Thomson

Roberts-Thomson is a rarity in AFL as he grew up playing rugby union as a contemporary of Wallaby Phil Waugh at Sydney Church of England Grammar School.

Mark Cueto

He was left out of the surprise quarter-final victory against Australia and the even more surprising semi-final victory over France due to a niggling injury.

Monkstown Football Club

Monkstown have hosted a number of international teams over the years, such as Australia, when they won the World Cup in 1991.

Os du Randt

He joined Australians Dan Crowley, John Eales, Tim Horan, Phil Kearns, and Jason Little as the only players to play on two Rugby World Cup-winning teams.

Shontayne Hape

He made his full Test debut for England two weeks later on 12 June in Perth against Australia and appeared again a week later in Sydney in the 2nd Test of that English tour.

Tongan Australian

Viliami Ofahengaue, affectionately known as Willie O, former Wallaby number eight and Flanker with 41 caps between 1990 and 1998, including the 1991 and 1995 World Cups.

Zambia national rugby union team

One of the greatest rugby union players of all-time and the world's most capped player, Australian player George Gregan, was born in Lusaka, Zambia in 1973.


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