Walter Bennett (rugby union)

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Walter Bennett
Birth name Walter Gordon Bennett [1]
Date of birth(1906-03-26)26 March 1906 [1]
Place of birth Brisbane, Queensland [1]
Date of death 11 September 1979(1979-09-11) (aged 73) [1]
Place of death Sydney
School Anglican Church Grammar School
Rugby union career
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1931–33 [1] Wallabies 4 [1] (3) [1]

Walter Gordon Bennett (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1979) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.

Rugby union Team sport, code of rugby football

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world simply as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts at each end.

Australia Country in Oceania

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Bennett, a scrum-half, was born in Brisbane, Queensland and claimed a total of four international rugby caps for Australia. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School. [2]

Anglican Church Grammar School boys school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The Anglican Church Grammar School (ACGS), formerly the Church of England Grammar School and commonly referred to as Churchie, is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in East Brisbane, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Scrum.com player profile of Walter Bennett". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ↑ Mason, James (2011). Churchie: The Centenary Register. Brisbane, Australia: The Anglican Church Grammar School. ISBN   978-0-646-55807-3.


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