Alex Ross (rugby union)

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Alec Ross

Birth name

Alec William Ross

Date of birth

24 November 1905

Place of birth

Cundletown, New South Wales

Date of death

30 August 1996 (aged 90)

Height

5 ft 8 in (173 cm)

Weight

10 st 6 lb (146 lb; 66 kg)

School

Sydney Grammar School

University

University of Sydney^[1]

Occupation(s)

General Practitioner

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position(s)	Full-back
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
	Sydney University Manly RUFC Eastern Suburbs RUFC	66 22 18	()
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1925-1934	New South Wales	33	()
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1925-1934	Australia	20

Alexander William Ross (4 November 1905 – 30 August 1996) was an Australian state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in thirteen Test matches in 1933-34.

Career

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Ross was schooled at Sydney Grammar and studied medicine at Sydney University while attending St Andrew's College. He made his first representative appearance in 1925 at the time when the Queensland Rugby Union administration was dormant rendering the New South Wales Waratahs the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period 1919 to 1929. A number of the Waratah fixtures of 1920s which were played against full international opposition and in which Ross appeared were decreed by the Australian Rugby Union in 1986 as official Test matches.

In 1925 Ross debuted with appearances for New South Wales against New Zealand in a first XV, a second XV and an "A" XV. He played 13 tests with New South Wales between 1925 and 1930 and received five Blues from Sydney University in each of the years 1925 to 1929.

He made three Test appearances against New Zealand in 1926 and then was selected for the 1927–28 New South Wales rugby union tour of the British Isles, France and Canada captained by Johnnie Wallace where he played in all five Tests of the tour plus 24 of the minor matches. He was a stalwart of the nine-month tour and appeared in 29 of the total 38 matches - more than any other player.

In 2009, he was honoured in the fourth set of inductees into the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame.

References

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Sources

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Collection (1995) Gordon Bray presents The Spirit of Rugby, Harper Collins Publishers Sydney
Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead - Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ

On-line refs

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Ross rugby career at scrum.com

Footnotes

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^ "St Andrew's College Wallabies". Planet Rugby. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.

Preceded by Dave Cowper	Australian national rugby union captain 1933-34	Succeeded by Ron Walden

Rugby Australia Hall of Fame

2005	Tom Richards Colin Windon John Thornett Ken Catchpole Mark Ella
2006	Cyril Towers Sir Nicholas Shehadie John Hipwell
2007	Tom Lawton, Snr Mark Loane David Campese
2008	Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop Nick Farr-Jones Des Connor
2009	Alex Ross Jon White Tony Miller
2010	Johnnie Wallace Trevor Allan Andrew Slack
2011	Herbert Moran Paul McLean John Eales
2012	Geoff Shaw Tony Shaw Wally Meagher
2013	Bill Cerutti Charlie Eastes Michael Lynagh

2014	Wylie Breckenridge Greg Davis Simon Poidevin
2015	Jock Blackwood Cyril Burke Tim Horan
2016	Jack Ford Peter Johnson John Solomon
2017	David Brockhoff Greg Cornelsen
2018	Eddie Bonis Tim Gavin Phil Kearns
2019	George Gregan Stephen Larkham
2020	No inductees
2021	Peter Crittle Rob Heming

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