Tyquin Brothers (rugby league)

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Bill and Tom Tyquin were both Australian representative rugby league players who between them played twelve Tests for the Australian national team between 1948 and 1956.

[edit] Bill Tyquin

Bill Tyquin

Captain of Qld 1949
Personal information
Full name	Ignatius William Tyquin
Date of birth	1919
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland,
Date of death	17 August, 1999
Place of death	Brisbane, Queensland,
Youth clubs
Years	Club
	Southern Suburbs Brisbane
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1938-1939 1940 1941 1945-1950	Souths Brisbane Brothers Brisbane St George Dragons Souths Brisbane	15 (24)
Representative teams
1941 1945–1949 1948-1949	New South Wales Queensland Australia	1 (0) 9 (0) 6 (9)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Bill Tyquin OA (1919 - 1999) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a lock forward for the Australian national team. He played in 6 Tests between 1948 and 1949 as captain on 3 occasions.

[edit] Club career

Bill Tyquin was born and schooled in Brisbane and played with Souths Brisbane and the Brothers club before WWII. Stationed in Sydney with the AIF during the war he played the 1941 season with the St George Dragons and played in St George's inaugural Grand Final win in 1941. In that game he was sent off by the referee after a clash with Easts rival Jack Arnold. After the war he returned to Souths Brisbane playing five seasons from 1945-50 and from where he enjoyed representative success.

[edit] Playing style

Whiticker's reference acclaims Bill as the premier lock forward of the Australian game in the five year period immediately after WWII. He asserts that Tyquin was a great cover defender who had one of the biggest punt kicks in the game at that time. ^[1].

[edit] Representative career

Australian national rugby league captain

He first represented for Queensland in 1945 and then regularly over the next 5 years making 8 appearances against New South Wales as well as captaining Queensland in 1948 against a touring New Zealand side.

He made his Test debut against New Zealand in the first Test of the 1948 series in Sydney and played in both Tests. He was subsequently named as vice-captain to Col Maxwell for the 1949 Kangaroo Tour of England and France an appointment overshadowed by the controversial non-selection of Len Smith. On that 1949 tour Tyquin played in 4 Tests and 10 minor tour matches. He enjoyed the honour of captaining Australia in two Tests against France and then in the third dead-rubber Test against Great Britain in Bradford.

[edit] War service

Bill Tyquin enlisted in the Australian Army in 1941. He was a Sergeant in the 2/5 Armoured Regiment. He was discharged in 1946.

[edit] Post playing

After football Tyquin worked in the wholesale liquor industry. He devoted many years to administration of the Souths Brisbane Leagues club and was its President during the 1970s.

[edit] Representative statistics

[edit] Tom Tyquin

Australian national rugby league player

Tom Tyquin also represented for Australia at rugby league and like his brother played his club football with Souths Brisbane. He was also a lock forward although a number of his representative appearances were made as a second-row forward.

He made six Test appearances for Australia after debuting in the 1956 domestic series against New Zealand. He toured with the 1956-57 Kangaroos playing in 2 Tests and 13 tour matches. He was selected in the 1957 Australian World Cup squad.

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney
• Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney

[edit] Footnotes