Robert Graves (rugby)

He then joined the Gipps Club in the Balmain area with whom he won the Sydney rugby union premiership in 1904.[2] He joined the Balmain club in the metropolitan rugby competition in 1905 and from there was selected to represent Metropolis (Sydney) in a fixture against Country played over Easter in 1905.He played in all three matches and along with the other Australian rebel players was promptly blacklisted by the New South Wales Rugby Union for breaching its fundamental principle of amateurism.[4] Both the Whiticker and Whiticker/Collis references record that in 1907 Graves represented New South Wales in rugby union and in that same year came on as a replacement for John Rosewell in the Wallabies v All Blacks 1st Test in Sydney.[2] This makes Graves a dual code rugby international and he is listed as such in the 1991 edition of the Andrews reference.
Graves (2nd row far right) Pioneer Kangaroos 1908-09
Graves front far right with a group of the 1908 Kangaroos
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