Alex Ross (rugby union)

Rugby player

Alec Ross

Birth name| Alec William Ross

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Date of birth| 24 November 1905
Place of birth| Cundletown, New South Wales
Date of death| 30 August 1996(1996-08-30) (aged 90)
Height| 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight| 10 st 6 lb (146 lb; 66 kg)
School| Sydney Grammar School
University| University of Sydney[1]
Occupation(s)| General Practitioner
Rugby union career
| Position(s)|  Full-back

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Senior career
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Points)
|  Sydney University
Manly RUFC
Eastern Suburbs RUFC|  66

18|  ()
Provincial / State sides
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Points)
1925-1934|  New South Wales|  33|  ()
International career
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Points)
1925-1934|  Australia|  20|

Alec Ross (4 November 1905 – 30 August 1996) was an Australian state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in thirteen Test matches in 1933-34.

## Career[edit]

Ross was schooled at Sydney Grammar and studied medicine at Sydney University while attending St Andrew's College. He made his first representative appearance in 1925 at the time when the Queensland Rugby Union administration was dormant rendering the New South Wales Waratahs the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period 1919 to 1929. A number of the Waratah fixtures of 1920s which were played against full international opposition and in which Ross appeared were decreed by the Australian Rugby Union in 1986 as official Test matches.

In 1925 Ross debuted with appearances for New South Wales against New Zealand in a first XV, a second XV and an "A" XV. He played 13 tests with New South Wales between 1925 and 1930 and received five Blues from Sydney University in each of the years 1925 to 1929.

He made three Test appearances against New Zealand in 1926 and then was selected for the 1927–28 New South Wales rugby union tour of the British Isles, France and Canada captained by Johnnie Wallace where he played in all five Tests of the tour plus 24 of the minor matches. He was a stalwart of the nine-month tour and appeared in 29 of the total 38 matches - more than any other player.

In 2009, he was honoured in the fourth set of inductees into the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame.

Ross (right), captain of the victorious Bledisloe Wallabies, 1st Test v NZ 11 Aug 1934

## References[edit]

### Sources[edit]

* Collection (1995) Gordon Bray presents The Spirit of Rugby, Harper Collins Publishers Sydney
* Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead - Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ

### On-line refs[edit]

* Ross rugby career at scrum.com

### Footnotes[edit]

1. ^ "St Andrew's College Wallabies". Planet Rugby. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.

Preceded by

Dave Cowper

|  Australian national rugby union captain
1933-34  | Succeeded by

Ron Walden

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Rugby Australia Hall of Fame

| 2005|

* Tom Richards
* Colin Windon
* John Thornett
* Ken Catchpole
* Mark Ella

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2006|

* Cyril Towers
* Sir Nicholas Shehadie
* John Hipwell

2007|

* Tom Lawton, Snr
* Mark Loane
* David Campese

2008|

* Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop
* Nick Farr-Jones
* Des Connor

2009|

* Alex Ross
* Jon White
* Tony Miller

2010|

* Johnnie Wallace
* Trevor Allan
* Andrew Slack

2011|

* Herbert Moran
* Paul McLean
* John Eales

2012|

* Geoff Shaw
* Tony Shaw
* Wally Meagher

2013|

* Bill Cerutti
* Charlie Eastes
* Michael Lynagh

| 2014|

* Wylie Breckenridge
* Greg Davis
* Simon Poidevin

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2015|

* Jock Blackwood
* Cyril Burke
* Tim Horan

2016|

* Jack Ford
* Peter Johnson
* John Solomon

2017|

* David Brockhoff
* Greg Cornelsen

2018|

* Eddie Bonis
* Tim Gavin
* Phil Kearns

2019|

* George Gregan
* Stephen Larkham

2020|

* No inductees

2021|

* Peter Crittle
* Rob Heming

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