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Stuart Macdougall

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Stuart Macdougall
SchoolNewington College
Notable relative(s)Graeme Macdougall (brother)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1971-1976  Australia 8

Stuart Grant Macdougall (1 June 1947 - ) is a former Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies eight times.[1]

Early life

Macdougall was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1955-1966).[2] He played his early club Rugby with St George.

Representative career

At the age of twenty-three, MacDougall was selected to represent New South Wales against Queensland. The following year he played in his first test match against South Africa against a back drop of anti-apartheid demonstrations. On this occasion he marked the Springbok captain Hannes Marais. He toured England in 1973-74 and played three tests against New Zealand in 1974. He played his three final tests against England, two at home in 1975 and once on the 1975-76 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland.

References

  1. ^ Australian Rugby - The Game and the Players (Jack Pollard Syd, 1994) pp 300: Macdougall, Stuart Grant (1947 - )
  2. ^ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 130