| Full name | Macquarie Gordon Carpenter | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 17 April 1911 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Trangie, NSW, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 June 1988 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Australian Open | 1R (1930) |
Macquarie Gordon "Max" Carpenter (17 April 1911 — 28 June 1988) was an Australian rugby union international.
Carpenter, born in Trangie, New South Wales, attended Randwick Intermediate High School and was a state schoolboys rugby league representative. He also played Linton Cup tennis for his state, notably beating Adrian Quist in 1929. [1] [2]
A speedy three-quarter, Carpenter started his rugby career in Western Australia after he had to move to Perth in 1930 for employment. [2] His Wallabies caps came later while he was based in Melbourne, where he played for Footscray. Selected by the Wallabies in 1938 as a winger and goal-kicker, Carpenter contributed 20 of his team's 23 points in his two Bledisloe Cup appearances, including a two-try performance in Brisbane. He was on the 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland, that was abandoned two days after the team's arrival because of the war. [1]
Carpenter coached Sydney clubs Drummoyne and Parramatta in the immediate post-war period. [3]