Northern Suburbs Rugby Club
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Northern Suburbs Rugby Club are a rugby union team from Sydney, Australia. The club was formed in 1900 from the merger of the Pirates and Wallaroos clubs. The club competes in the Shute Shield and Tooheys New Cup competitions run by the New South Wales Rugby Union.
The club has produced 42 Wallaby representatives. The club's home ground is the historic North Sydney Oval on the North Shore of Sydney. The ground has been home to both codes of rugby and cricket for more than a century.
[edit] Club information
- Club Name: Northern Suburbs Rugby Football Club
- Nickname: The Shoremen, Norths, The Red and Blacks
- Founded: 1900
- Home stadium: North Sydney Oval
- Head coach: Darren Coleman
- Club Captain: Will Hunt
- Uniform colors: Red & Black
- Premiership Titles: 6 in First Division (1933, 1935, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1975)
[edit] International Representatives
- 1903 Charles White
- 1903 Dinny Lutge
- 1905 Leslie Smith
- 1905 Blair Swannell
- 1907 Norman Row
- 1913 Bryan Hughes
- 1921 Owen Humphreys
- 1921 Charlie Fox
- 1921 Dr Derby Louden
- 1922 Roy Cooney
- 1925 Colin Shaw
- 1925 Ken Tarelton
- 1928 Eric Bardsley
- 1931 Thomas Perrin
- 1932 Sydney King
- 1932 Bill Hemmingway
- 1933 Wal Mackney
- 1936 Eric Gibbons
- 1937 Eric Hutchinson
- 1947 Roger Cornforth
- 1951 Peter Rothwell
- 1952 Jim Walsh
- 1953 Ned Morey
- 1955 Jim Cross
- 1956 Rod Phelps
- 1958 John Carroll
- 1958 John Thornett
- 1961 John Dowse
- 1962 Roy Prosser
- 1962 Andy Town
- 1962 Les Austin
- 1969 Hugh Rose
- 1971 Reg Smith
- 1971 Garrick Fay
- 1979 Peter Carson
- 1979 Andy Stewart
- 1991 Richard Tombs
- 1996 Mark Bell
- 2000 Troy Jaques
- 2001 Ben Darwin
- 2001 Graeme Bond
- 2003 Al Baxter
- 2005 Adam Ashley-Cooper
- 2006 Cameron Shepherd
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