Micky Dore

Micky Dore
Birth name	Michael Joseph Dore
Occupation(s)	Saddler’s clerk
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	scrum-half
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
1902-07	North Brisbane
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
	Queensland
International career
Years	Team
1905	Australia
	Rugby league career
Playing information
Position	Half-back
Representative

Michael Joseph Dore (1 July 1883 – 13 August 1910)

Doug McLean snr

and John Rosewell he was one of the inaugural five Australian dual code rugby internationals who having earlier represented at rugby union, debuted in international rugby league in Sydney on 9 May 1908 in the first ever Australian league Test against New Zealand.

Rugby union career

Dore was selected as

Edmund

had also represented Australia against the 1904 British Isles tourists.

Rugby league career

Dore's decision to switch codes in 1907 influenced many other Queensland union players including his brother, to join the Rugby League ranks. He was a member of the inaugural committee of the Queensland Rugby Football Association and was a foundation Australian selector. Along with two other of the five inaugural selectors (Arthur Hennessy & Lutge) Dore picked himself in 1908 for the first two rugby league internationals against New Zealand. He played in the first ever trans-Tasman test, which was the debut match of the Australia national rugby league team. He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No.5.^[4]

Dore was unable to get leave of absence from his job to attend the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of England and made his 3rd and final rugby league Test appearance against New Zealand in Sydney in 1909. Altogether he played three Tests for the Australian national team as Half-Back.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Scrum.com player profile of Mike Dore". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b "AUSTRALIAN NEWS", Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 15 August 1910, Page 8
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Biographies: Michael Joseph (Mick, Mickey) Dore". Brave and Game. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
^ ARL Annual Report 2005, page 52

Sources

Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney
Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League, Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney

[scrum-1] "Scrum.com player profile of Mike Dore". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.

[obit-2] "AUSTRALIAN NEWS", Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 15 August 1910, Page 8

[BraveandGame-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Biographies: Michael Joseph (Mick, Mickey) Dore". Brave and Game. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2010.

[4] ARL Annual Report 2005, page 52

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