| Full name | Allen Martindale Oxlade[1] | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 June 1882[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Brisbane, Queensland [1] | ||
| Date of death | c. 1932[1] | ||
| School | Petrie Terrace State School | ||
| Occupation(s) | Alderman | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | hooker[1] | ||
| Provincial/State sides | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1902-1912 | Queensland | 28 | |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1904-07[1] | Australia | 4[1] | (0)[1] |
Allen Martindale Oxlade (18 June 1882 - c. 1932) was an Australian rugby union player a state and national representative hooker who captained the Wallabies in 1907.
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Oxlade was born in Brisbane, Queensland and schooled at Petrie Terrace State School in Brisbane. After school he moved to Sydney and commenced his rugby career with the North Sydney rugby union club. In 1902 he moved back to Queensland and from 1902 to 1907 and then again in 1912 he played for Norths Brisbane. In the intervening years his Brisbane club career was played with Past Grammars RU club.[2]
Oxlade was regularly selected in Queensland state sides from 1902 , making 28 appearances in a twelve year state representative career [3]. He first played against an international side when the touring All Blacks of 1903 met Queensland in a tour match. Oxlade's Queensland teammates that day included Doug McLean, Snr., Micky Dore and Frank Nicholson.[4]
In 1904 he appeared twice more for Queensland and that same year made Test debut against Great Britain, at Brisbane, on 23 July 1904. He was selected the next year on Australia's first ever rugby tour of New Zealand. When the All Blacks toured Australia in 1907 Oxlade was not picked for the first Test played in Sydney but for the second Test in Brisbane seven Queenslanders were selected and Allen Oxlade was picked at captain ahead of other senior players including Dally Messenger, Boxer Russell and Peter Burge. New Zealand won the match 14 to 5. All told Oxlade claimed four international rugby caps for Australia.
After rugby he was a commercial traveller in the north of Queensland for the wholesaling firm Hoffnungs and later he joined Oxlade Brothers in Brisbane, a family painting firm.[5] He was a Brisbane City Council alderman at the time of his death in 1932 representing the Merthyr ward. Oxlade Drive in Brisbane is named after him. [6]
Oxlade's son Boyd made three Test appearances for Australia in 1938 and was selected for the ill-fated 1939 Wallaby tour to England captained by Vay Wilson. [7] The team docked at Southampton on the day when England declared war and after a couple of weeks spent filling sandbags to start the war effort, the squad set sail for Australia having not played a game.
| Preceded by Peter Burge |
Australian national rugby union captain 1907 |
Succeeded by Herbert Moran |