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Rugby Union Players at the 1920 Summer Olympics: Daniel Carroll, Robert L. Templeton, Morris Kirksey, Jacques Forestier, Erwin Righter |
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English |
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Paperback |
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64 |
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2010-05-26 |
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115702372X |
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Books LLC |
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0.23 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.12 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Daniel Carroll, Robert L. Templeton, Morris Kirksey, Jacques Forestier, Erwin Righter, Charles Doe, André Chilo, John O'neil, Adolphe Bousquet, Charles Lee Tilden, Jr., John Patrick, Rudolph Scholz, François Borde, James Fitzpatrick, Charles Mehan, René Crabos, John Muldoon, Alfred Eluère, Édouard Bader, Maurice Labeyrie, George Fish, Robert Levasseur, Alphonse Castex, Pierre Petiteau, Joseph Hunter, Heaton Wrenn. Excerpt: Daniel Brendan Carroll DSC (November 17, 1892 August 5, 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. He later coached the gold-medal winning USA Rugby team at the 1924 Summer Olympics. 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 USA working in the mining/petroleum industries. 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. 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 the British Isles and France. He wa... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11118521
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