Alan Cameron (rugby union)

Alan Cameron
Birth name	Alan Stewart Cameron
Date of birth	18 November 1929
Place of birth	Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death	20 March 2010 (aged 80)
Place of death	Sydney
School	Newington College
Occupation(s)	Stock Auctioneer
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Second Row
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
	St George
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
1948–57	NSW
International career
Years	Team
1951–58	Australia

Alan Stewart Cameron (18 November 1929 – 20 March 2010) was an Australian rugby union footballer of the 1950s and 60s. A State and national representative lock-forward he made twenty Test appearances and over fifty additional tour match appearances for the Wallabies, captaining the national side in four Tests matches.^[2]

Rugby career

Cameron attended Newington College from 1945 to 1948^[3] and was selected in the GPS combined team in 1946 and 1947.^[4] After school he joined the St George Rugby Union Football Club and would go on to play 266 games for the club. In his debut year in grade and after only five club matches he was selected in the New South Wales Waratahs side to meet Queensland in the annual inter-state series.^[4] He made twenty-six State representative appearances between 1948 and 1957.

He made his international representative debut for the

All Blacks sides in 1951 and 1957, Fiji in 1952 and 1954 and the South Africa in 1956.^[4]

Captaincy

On the 1952 tour to New Zealand he played in nine of the total ten matches including both Tests. At aged twenty-two he was honoured with the Australian captaincy in a mid-week match against King Country.

Tony Miller's form was on the ascendancy at that time and Cameron held his Test lock position for only the Test against Ireland, but he played in twenty-one other matches of the forty-match tour and captained the side in seven of those.^[4]

Preceded by Nicholas Shehadie	Australian national rugby union captain 1955–56	Succeeded by Dick Tooth

Published references

Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead – Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Scrum.com player profile of Alan Cameron". Scrum.com. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
^ Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 83: Cameron, Alan Stewart (1929)
^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) p. 28
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Howell pp. 149–151

External links

[scrum-1] "Scrum.com player profile of Alan Cameron". Scrum.com. Retrieved 22 July 2010.

[Cameron-2] Australian Rugby – The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 83: Cameron, Alan Stewart (1929)

[3] Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) p. 28

[Howell-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Howell pp. 149–151

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