Full name | Ralph Lindsay Garner | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 January 1927 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Yass, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 14 July 2012 | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Kelso, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Ralph Lindsay Garner (20 January 1927 — 14 July 2012) was an Australian rugby union international.
Garner was born in Yass and educated at De La Salle College Armidale and the University of Sydney. He played first-grade for the Sydney University XV and toured New Zealand in 1949 with an Australian Universities representative side. [1]
A speed winger, Garner gained two Wallabies caps on the historic 1949 tour of New Zealand, where they claimed a first ever away series win over the All Blacks. He scored two first-half tries to be the match-winner on debut in the 1st Test in Wellington and for his efforts on tour was named one of five "players of the year" by the NZ Rugby Almanack. [2]
Garner scored a hat-trick for Sydney University to help defeat Eastern Suburbs in the 1951 Shute Shield grand final. [3]
Full name | Ralph Lindsay Garner | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 January 1927 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Yass, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 14 July 2012 | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Kelso, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Ralph Lindsay Garner (20 January 1927 — 14 July 2012) was an Australian rugby union international.
Garner was born in Yass and educated at De La Salle College Armidale and the University of Sydney. He played first-grade for the Sydney University XV and toured New Zealand in 1949 with an Australian Universities representative side. [1]
A speed winger, Garner gained two Wallabies caps on the historic 1949 tour of New Zealand, where they claimed a first ever away series win over the All Blacks. He scored two first-half tries to be the match-winner on debut in the 1st Test in Wellington and for his efforts on tour was named one of five "players of the year" by the NZ Rugby Almanack. [2]
Garner scored a hat-trick for Sydney University to help defeat Eastern Suburbs in the 1951 Shute Shield grand final. [3]