Full name | Ronald Graham | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 21 December 1946 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
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Ronald Graham AM (born 21 December 1946) is an Australian former rugby union player and administrator. [1]
Graham was born and raised in Sydney, attending Kingsgrove North High School. [2]
A product of Bexley Kingsgrove juniors, Graham was a prop and played first-grade for St. George. He broke into the Wallabies team in 1973 after the retirement of Roy Prosser and gained a total of 18 Test caps. His international career included the 1975–76 tour of Britain, where he had the distinction of captaining the Wallabies in a tour match. [2]
Graham served as the chairman of Australian Rugby Union from 2005 to 2007. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to rugby union as an administrator. [3]
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