Rugby player
Full name | Desmond Joseph Carrick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1919-09-02)2 September 1919 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Stanmore, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 30 May 1999(1999-05-30) (aged 79) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Desmond Joseph Carrick (2 September 1919 – 30 May 1999) was an Australian international rugby union player.
Carrick was born in Sydney and educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, where he captained the first XV.
A Gordon player, Carrick had a quick rise to representative rugby, making his New South Wales debut at the age of 19, then earning a place on the Wallabies squad for the 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland, with the young centre preferred over veteran Cyril Towers. The tour was cancelled due to World War II, soon after the team arrived in England, but he did get the opportunity to represent Australia against the Gymkhana XV during a stopover in Bombay on the trip home.
Carrick served in the army during the war and reached the rank of Lance Sergeant. He considered signing with rugby league club Newtown, but continued as a rugby union player after the war, before retiring in 1946.
See also
References
- ^ "Desmond Joseph Carrick". classicwallabies.com.au.
- "'Lucky 29' journey into despair - part two". The Roar. 26 May 2013.
- "Carrick's Decision Hasty, Says Newtown President". The Daily Mirror. 9 April 1943. p. 11 (Late Final Extra 2) – via National Library of Australia.
- 1919 births
- 1999 deaths
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- Gordon RFC players
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- Rugby union centres
- Australian Army personnel of World War II
- People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen