Daniel Carroll (rugby union)

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Daniel Carroll
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Dan Carroll 1908.jpg
1908 Wallaby
Birth nameDaniel Brendon Carroll [1] [2]
Date of birth(1888-11-17)17 November 1888 [1]
Place of birth Melbourne, Victoria [1]
Date of death5 August 1956(1956-08-05) (aged 67) [1]
Place of death New Orleans, Louisiana [1]
School St Aloysius Sydney
University Sydney University
Occupation(s)Geologist, Oil industry
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre, [1] Fly-half [1] Winger, Scrum-half
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
St George Rugby Union ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
New South Wales ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1908–12 Australia 2 (3)
1913–20 United States 3 (0)
Coaching career
YearsTeam
1920 United States
Medal record
Men's rugby union
Olympic Games
Representing Flag of Australasian team for Olympic games.svg Australasia
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1908 London Team competition
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1920 Antwerp Team competition

Daniel Brendon Carroll DSC (17 November 1888, possibly 1892 – 5 August 1956) was an Australian national representative rugby union player. He was a dual Olympic gold medalist, winning in rugby at the 1908 Summer Olympics for Australia and also winning gold for the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics. [3]

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Age

He is erroneously referred to in some records as the youngest ever Australian representative rugby player due to a birthdate error in the Olympic records database. He served in the American Army as a lieutenant in World War I and lived out his life in the US, working in the mining/petroleum industry.

Schooling and early rugby

Carroll was born at Flemington, Victoria. His family relocated to Sydney during his early childhood and he was educated at St Aloysius' College (Sydney) playing rugby in the school's first XV and then at Sydney University where he studied dentistry. His club rugby was played with St George in southern Sydney. He was a winger at that time and in that position made his Australian representatives appearances. Later in his career, he played at fly-half.

Australian rugby representative

He was selected in Australia's inaugural national rugby team to tour the northern hemisphere – Dr Paddy Moran's first Wallabies for the 1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain. He was the youngest member of the tour squad at 20 years. Carroll played in the first Test of the tour, the 6–9 loss to Wales at Cardiff Arms Park, which was the first rugby Test played by an Australian team on British soil.

1908 Olympic Gold Final Wallabies v Cornwall. Olympic Rugby 1908.jpg
1908 Olympic Gold Final Wallabies v Cornwall.

At the time, the rugby tournament for the London Olympics game may not have appeared to be of great significance. Australia had already beaten Cornwall, the British county champions, early in the tour, and Scotland, Ireland and France had all turned down the Rugby Football Union's invitation to participate in the Olympic bouts. Neither the tour captain, Moran, nor the vice-captain Fred Wood played, so Chris McKivat led the Wallabies to an easy 32–3 victory and to Olympic glory, with each Wallaby in that match thereafter an Olympic gold medalist. Carroll scored two tries in the match. [4]

At the tour's end, McKivat would lead fourteen of the Wallabies into the professional ranks with the fledgling rugby league code in Sydney, but Carroll stayed loyal to the amateur game and was rewarded in 1912 when he was again selected in the Wallabies squad for the 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States. [5] The tour was a disappointment with the squad billeted out in college fraternity houses where the hospitality played havoc with team discipline and as result the team lost against two California University sides and three Canadian provincial sides. They rose to the occasion for the sole Test of the tour – the November 1912 clash against the United States at Berkeley, won 12–8. Carroll played at fly-half in that match and scored a try. Carroll thus made two Test career appearances for Australia.

American rugby and war service

Carroll with the US team in 1913 (pictured back row, first from left) United States Rugby Team in 1913.jpg
Carroll with the US team in 1913 (pictured back row, first from left)

Carroll stayed on in America after the 1912 tour. He played for All-America against the All Blacks in 1913, a Test won by NZ 51–3. He served in the American Army as a lieutenant in World War I and won a Distinguished Service Cross. [6]

He completed a degree in geology at Stanford University in 1920. He was coaching rugby at the university when he was selected as the playing coach of the USA side selected for the 1920 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal at Antwerp in that team playing at fly-half. [4] He made three rugby union Test career appearances for the United States between 1913 and 1920.

Zavos quotes an article from a local Stanford paper of 1935, which reports that Carroll played four years of rugby at Stanford and one year of American football. He won his letter in rugby in 1913, 1914 and 1915. He played his last game of rugby in 1921 when a pick-up team visited British Columbia. [7]

Post playing

After Stanford, Carroll furthered his education at Oxford and the Royal School of Mines in England. In 1921, he took up an appointment with Standard Oil and remained with the company until his retirement. [8]

Carroll married Helen Warden from Great Falls, Montana in 1927 and had one son, Daniel – who is deceased. Helen died in 1941, and Carroll died in New Orleans in 1956. [6]

Carroll front row left, with the 1908 Wallaby tour squad Postcard - Wallabies 1908.jpg
Carroll front row left, with the 1908 Wallaby tour squad

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Dan Carroll". Scrum.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Daniel Carroll". DatabaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ↑ "Daniel Carroll". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Daniel Carroll". Olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
  5. ↑ "Australian Rugby Team (Touring America), 1912, The Daily Telegraph, (Wednesday, 18 September 1912), p.15". Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  6. 1 2 Zavos, Spiro (8 August 2008). "Dan Carroll: rugby's greatest Olympian". TheRoar.com.au. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
  7. ↑ Zavos p123
  8. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dan Carroll". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.

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