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| Born | 1915 Forbes, New South Wales |
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| Died | 30 March 2008 Forster, New South Wales |
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| Position | Wing | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1936–39 | North Sydney | 15 | 12 | 2 | 40 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1936 | New South Wales | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 1936 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Source: Nth Sydney Bears online | ||||||
Arch Crippin (1916 – 2008) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s. A New South Wales interstate and Australian international representative winger, he played his whole club career with the North Sydney Bears.
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Originally from Forbes, New South Wales, Crippin moved to Sydney where he attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill for his last two years of school. He was a talented sportsman representing for Combined GPS in cricket, rugby union and athletics.[1]
Crippin was selected in the Kangaroos side to play Great Britain in 1936. He played in all three Tests on the wing outside captain Dave Brown. He marked his arrival with a brilliant 60m try in the second Test but bad-luck struck in the dying stages of the third when an England kick-through bounced back over his head and into the arms of Barney Hudson who scored the series-winning try.[1]
He was selected to play for the 1937-38 Kangaroos but a shoulder dislocation that would sideline a modern-day player for a matter of weeks forced him into early retirement.
Crippin served in the 35th Battalion a militia unit, in New Guinea during World War II.
Living to the age of 92, Crippin held the mantle as Australia's oldest living Test player for many years prior to his death. He was honoured in 2006 to present the Australian team with their jumpers before the Anzac Test against New Zealand.[2] He had sixteen great-grandchildren at the time of his death.