Download or read book The Descent of Australian Rugby written by R. J. P. Marks and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Rugby Union written by Jack Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1984-01 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union written by Gordon Bray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated profiles of the most legendary Australian rugby union players. Hardcover and jacket gift book which names a best of the best 15-strong line-up of Australian rugby union players. Each Immortal player named is profiled in a dedicated chapter with career stats and multiple action images. There is also a group of honourable mentions and an Immortals Wallaby side. Features 100 photographs and key statistics. The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union celebrates the greatest players to wear the green and gold for the Wallabies. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to the 15-player game. Gordon Bray, the voice of rugby in Australia, chooses his XV Immortals, telling the remarkable stories behind pioneering and modern-day Wallabies.
Download or read book The Australian Rugby Companion written by Gordon Bray and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to Australian rugby, revised and updated for the 2003 World Cup. Describes facets of the game, the 15-player code, the way rugby is played today, the way it has been played throughout history, major rugby venues in Australia, the laws of the codes, and information on where to discover rare rugby memorabilia. Contributors include Brother Anthony Boyd, Bob Dwyer, George Gregan, Rod Macqueen, Gary Pearse and Spiro Zavos. Foreword by John Eales. Includes profiles and fact sheets on all players in the Wallaby team, colour photos and index. Editor is Chief Rugby Commentator on the Seven network in Sydney and writes for the 'Daily Telegraph'.
Download or read book Australian Rugby written by Jack Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, this reference work provides comprehensive career details for every player who has represented the country at international level, including the 82 players who appeared in internationals in the 1920s. It records Australia's performance against each competing rugby nation from last century to the end of June 1994. Alphabetically arranged by matches and players and completely updated and revised, this volume contains more than 550 black and white photographs. The author is a respected sportswriter with many books to his credit including 'Six and Out'.
Download or read book Inside the Wallabies written by Greg Growden and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dally Messenger, Ken Catchpole, Dick Thornett, David Campese, John Eales, Nick Farr-Jones, Cyril Towers, Mark Ella, George Smith, Dave Brockhoff, Andrew Slack, Ray Price, John Hipwell, Jason Little, Phil Kearns, Will Genia... Herbert 'Paddy' Moran was mesmerised by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He was also the first captain of a strange, disparate bunch who called themselves the Wallabies. One hundred years on, the Wallabies of today are as outlandish, cocksure and eccentric as their forebears. It is the spirit and soul of this group of remarkable sportsmen that is captured in Inside the Wallabies. This is the real story of the Wallabies from their first games in 1908 to today. It is about the players, the coaches, the politics and the games. It is about the soaring highs of World Cup success and the years when they truly deserved the moniker of Woeful Wallabies. It is about going on Tour, about enmities and friendships, about moments of national elation and player shame. As fast paced as a Mark Ella backline play, as solid as Phil Kearns' front row and as controversial as a Robbie Deans selection, Inside the Wallabies is a fascinating, passionate and insightful history of the world of the Australian Rugby Union. It is a book no rugby fan can be without.
Download or read book The Immortals of Rugby League written by Liam Hauser and published by Gelding Street Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortals concept has become an established part of the Australian rugby league scene. It honours a very select group of former players regarded as the game's elite. Since 1981, when four former Australian Test captains were inducted as rugby league's first Immortals, a further nine identities have been added to the prestigious group. These players weren't just high achievers and standout performers, but also influential identities who set a new benchmark and changed the way rugby league is played. The Immortals of Rugby League delves into the illustrious careers of the 13 individuals who have attained Immortal status. The book describes their attributes and characteristics, in addition to their achievements and accomplishments at club, state and international level. The glory, triumphs and heroics, mixed with setbacks, controversies and disappointments, reflect their unique standing in rugby league. With career statistics, personal details and a range of photographs included, readers can enjoy an array of information about rugby league's Immortals.
Download or read book Wallaby Gold written by Peter Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very first game played by an Australian rugby team against a side from England in 1898 to the last Test match of 2002 in November, this extraordinary book tells the complete story of more than 100 years of Australia's involvement in international Test rugby. Superbly designed, printed and bound, with nearly 300 colour and black and white photographs, this fully updated and expanded edition of the only book to cover Austrlia's history in Test rugby is the 'must have' commemorative edition for every fan of the game. This revised and updated edition includes the last four years of tests, ready for the onslaught of the World Cup in October and November this year. Arranged in chronological order, each year includes an introduction with anecdotes drawn from hundreds of original interviews conducted by the author, and is followed by an account of each game played in that Test series, detailing the highs and lows as well as the drama, the characters and the humourous moments from 104 years of the game. Ten of the greatest living rugby captains have written individual introductions to the book, and the most thorough statistical section ever published for the game provides every fact and figure any rugby buff could ever want. Throughout the book are also hundreds of rare and iconic photographs never seen before. Peter Jenkins is a senior sportswriter for the Daily Telegraph, having started with the newspaper in 1984 then moving to The Australian for 10 years from 1991. A winner of several awards, including the 1998 and 1999 Print Media Prizes for his coverage of the Australian Rugby Union Test seasons, Peter has been writing about the Wallabies since 1985 and has followed them on almost 30 overseas assignments. He has attended all four World Cups, been a rugby union commentator with Sydney radio station 2UE since 1986 and covered the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics and the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpour for the News Limited group. Peter has also been the host of the Fox Sports pay-TV program, Main Game.
Download or read book Inside the Wallabies written by Greg Growden and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the real story of the Wallabies from their first games in 1908 to today. It is about the players, the coaches, the politics and the games. It is about the soaring highs of World Cup success and the years when they truly deserved the moniker of Woeful Wallabies. It is about going on Tour, about enmities and friendships, about moments of national elation and player shame. As fast paced as a Mark Ella backline play, as solid as Phil Kearns' front row and as controversial as a Robbie Deans selection, Inside the Wallabies is a fascinating, passionate and insightful history of the world of the Australian Rugby Union.
Download or read book The Story of Australian Rugby League written by Gary Lester and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nearly Men of Rugby League written by Tom Mather and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the sporting life of fifteen Australian Rugby League players who almost reached the pinnacle of their sporting career. Sadly, for many reasons, they were to fall at the final hurdle. The book also gives fascinating insights into the players’ lives off the field—one player gaining the second-highest military honour during World War I and another dying while en route to England to represent his country. One player was to lose his life in the most bizarre and mysterious circumstances while another remains somewhat of a mystery even to this day. Whilst essentially a book about Rugby League players, it is also a book about the extraordinary lives of sportsmen.
Download or read book The Changing Face of Rugby written by Greg Ryan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995 rugby union became the last significant international sport to sanction professionalism. To some this represented an undesirable challenge to the traditions of the game. To others the change was inevitable and overdue – an acknowledgment of both the realty of modern sport and the extent to which money had already permeated the game. While there are some commonalities in the response to professional rugby, the contributions to this book, representing almost all of the significant rugby playing countries, reveal much more that was shaped by particular local contexts both within rugby and in terms of its place within the economic, political, class and social structures of the surrounding society. The authors assess the contrasting ways in which rugby administrators at local, regional and national level grappled with the changes that were required and the demands of the corporate backers who funded the transition to professionalism. But the more contentious relationships considered are those involving the many amateur rugby players and committed fans who found that significant community and historical reference points were subtly altered or simply obliterated in the face of new commercial imperatives – and especially new competitions that separated elite players from the grassroots of the game. Some have adapted to the replacement ‘product’ with relish, others have not. Some have genuine and well articulated grievances against the processes of changes. Others have fallen victim to a nostalgia which appropriates very selective memories of the amateur past to highlight apparent problems with the professional present. Above all, these contributions provide a range of perspectives that enable the reader to take stock at a particular point in what is still a rapidly evolving game. Read in ten or twenty years, this book may confirm that many of the right paths have been taken – or it may provide pointers to crisis as yet unimagined.
Download or read book The Rise and Rise of Australian Rugby written by Philip Derriman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of the rise of Australian rugby, with a focus on major events over the past 30 years. Linked to a series on ABC television. Looks at the Wallabies' resurrection in the 1970s, their disappointing tour of the UK in the 1980s, their 1985 win against the All Blacks, and their 1991 World Cup win. Foreword by John Eales. Includes colour photos, statistics and index. Author is a Sydney journalist and sports writer for the 'Sydney Morning Herald'. His previous titles include 'The Grand Old Ground' and 'Our Don Bradman'.
Download or read book Wallaby Gold written by Peter Jenkins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ella written by Bret Harris and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive authorised biography of a rugby legend. This new biography of Mark Ella traces the inspirational life of one of Australia's greatest sporting champions from the squalor of an Aboriginal community in Sydney's La Perouse to international fame as a Wallaby and one of the best players ever to play rugby union. Mark was raised among 12 children in a tumbledown shack and he attributes his extraordinary success to the influence of his parents, his family, and enlightened teachers and coaches who nurtured his amazing talent. Along with twin brother Glen and younger brother Gary, Mark virtually re-invented the game of rugby, playing an exciting brand of running rugby that thrilled crowds around the world. The magical Ella brothers first became front page news when they starred on the 1977/78 Australian Schoolboys' undefeated tour of Japan and Europe. The "Invincibles" featured future Wallabies Michael Hawker, Tony Melrose, Chris Roche and Tony D'Arcy, dual international Michael O'Connor and rugby league legend Wally Lewis, who later described Mark as the best player he ever played with or against. The Ellas joined the famous Randwick club in Sydney and played a key role in the Galloping Greens winning five consecutive premierships from 1978 to 1982. During this time all three Ellas graduated to representative rugby, playing for Sydney, NSW Waratahs and the Wallabies with Mark becoming Test captain in 1982. Mark was undoubtedly the star of the trio and earned 25 Test caps in a six-year international career from 1979 to 1984. But when Alan Jones replaced Bob Dwyer as Wallabies coach in 1984 Mark lost the captaincy to Queenslander Andrew Slack. While he was no longer captain, Mark was the dominant influence on the Wallabies' historic Grand Slam tour of the UK and Ireland, scoring a try in each of the four Tests against England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Mark then stunned the world of rugby by retiring at just 25 years of age, citing Jones as one of the reasons. He also turned down an offer from St George Dragons, which would have made him the highest paid player in the rival rugby league code. Since retiring Mark has continued to succeed off the field in coaching, administration, business and as a highly respected rugby columnist. He also married his childhood sweetheart Kim and started his own family. In 1988 Mark, a talented cricketer in his schooldays, was the manager of the Aboriginal cricket team's tour of England, which commemorated the historic 1868 Aboriginal tour. A brief comeback with Randwick in 1989 led to an enquiry by restored Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer as to whether Mark wanted to return to Test rugby. Instead, Mark played at Milan in 1989 with his former Wallabies team-mate and kindred spirit David Campese and then coached the team for three years, winning two Italian national championships. In 1995, the year rugby union went professional and the Wallabies failed to defend the World Cup in South Africa, Mark received the great honour of being among the inaugural fifteen players inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame, confirming his status as one of the all time greats of the game. He was later one of the first five players inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame. Mark's main involvement with rugby over the last years has been as a columnist with The Australian newspaper. Mark has strong opinions on how the game is played and administered and has controversial views about star players and coaches.
Download or read book The Struggle for the Ashes written by Robert Gate and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Centenary of Rugby League 1908 2008 written by Ian Heads and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Centenary of Rugby League tells the complete, season-by-season story of rugby league's first 100 years in Australia. Rich in detail, anecdote, history, scandal and triumph, and illustrated by hundreds of extraordinary photographs, A Centenary of Rugby League is the one book every league fan should own. Never before has the game been covered in such comprehensive, year-by-year detail. The book includes not just the story of the first 100 years of the Sydney (now NRL) premiership, but also the many great competitions that have been staged across Australia. As well, the often controversial and always colourful history of matches between Queensland and New South Wales are featured, from the inaugural game in 1908 to the State of Origin battles of today. And Australia's pivotal place in international rugby league - most notably in epic Test matches against Great Britain, on Kangaroo tours of England and France, and in World Cup, World Series and Tri-Series tournaments - is celebrated in word and picture. Australian rugby league's 100 greatest players of all time - from Dally Messenger to Darren Lockyer, as chosen by the ARL especially for the centenary year - are revealed and profiled in the book. And special sections highlight all the famous matches, controversies and incidents that have made league's history so colourful over the last century.
