Frank Nicholson (rugby union)

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Frank Nicholson (rugby union) - Wikipedia

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Frank Nicholson

Birth name

Frank Villenueve Nicholson^[1]

Date of birth

15 October 1878^[2]

Place of birth

Villeneuve, Queensland^[2]

Date of death

circa 1970^[1]

School

Brisbane Grammar School and University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

Rugby union career

Amateur team(s)
Position(s)	prop^[1]
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
	Toombul, Qld.		()
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1900-04	Queensland	13	()
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1903–04^[1]	Australia	2^[1]	(0^[1])

Frank Villenueve Nicholson (15 October 1878 – c. 1970) was an Australian Boer War veteran and rugby union player, a state and national representative who made two test appearances in 1903–1904, captaining the side on one occasion.

Early life

Nicholson was born in Villeneuve, Queensland, a place renamed from Humberstone^[3] by his father (also named Frank) who started the first sawmill in the area in 1877, founding the small town.^[4]

Career

Nicholson, a prop, played thirteen times for Queensland between 1900 and 1904 with twelve of these matches played against New South Wales. The Howell reference claims that Nicholson's rugby career was interrupted by enlistment in the Boer War.^[5] He claimed two international rugby caps for Australia. He appeared for Queensland against the touring New Zealanders in Brisbane in August 1903 and two weeks later made his international debut against the same tourists in Sydney, on 15 August 1903.

In 1904, he captained Queensland in the inter-state series and played alongside his brother Fred who scored a try in that match. Later that season he had the honour of captaining Australia in a Test match against a touring British Lions side. Australia lost the match 17–0. Nicholson was selected in a 1905 squad that toured New Zealand but he did not play in any matches of the tour.^[6]

He left Australia in 1905 going to Philadelphia to study dentistry.^[6] In 1906, he reintroduced Rugby per Rugby Union code to University of Pennsylvania^[7]^[8] while attending University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (Class of 1910).^[9]

Upon his return in 1911 he became a selector and coach of the Queensland state side.

Preceded by Stan Wickham	Australian national rugby union captain 1904	Succeeded by Peter Burge

Bibliography

Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead - Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Scrum.com player profile of Frank Nicholson". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Family Notices: Births". The Brisbane Courier. 19 October 1878. p. 4. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
^ Cilento, Raphael; Lack, Clem, eds. (1959). "First Forays Towards the Tropics" (PDF). Triumph in the tropics : an historical sketch of Queensland. Brisbane, Qld.: Smith & Paterson. p. 115.
^ Kerr, John (January 1998). "Geographical Overview of Sawmilling" (PDF). p. 88. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
^ Howell p24
^ ^a ^b Howell p 25
^ Old Penn Weekly Vol. V. No. 4, October 19, 1906 page 19, bottom of column 3 (see https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=43&q1=rugby) and Old Penn Weekly Vol. V. No. 5, October 27, 1906 page 10, column 2 (see https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=54&q1=rugby )
^ "Old Penn; weekly magazine of the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 5 (1906-1907)". HathiTrust. 1902.
^ "Frank Villeneuve Nicholson | Classic Wallabies".

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