John Rosewell

For other people named John Rosewell, see John Rosewell (disambiguation).
Johnny Rosewell
Full name John S.H. Rosewell[1]
Date of birth 1 July 1882
Place of birth Sydney, New South Wales [1]
Date of death 1938
Rugby league career
Position Second-rower
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1908-10
1911-12		 South Sydney
Annandale		 29
10		 (24)
(0)
State Representation
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1908 New South Wales 2 (0)
National teams
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1908 Australia 1 (0)
Teams coached
1913 South Sydney
Rugby league career
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position prop[1]
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
South Sydney RUFC
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1907 New South Wales 2
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1907 [1] Australia 2 [1] (0) [1]

John S. H. Rosewell (1 July 1882–1938) was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league player and represented his country at both sports — a dual-code international.

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Rugby union career

His rugby union career was played with the South Sydney RUFC. Rosewell was 28 years of age before he first saw representative success making four appearances in 1907 against the All Blacks, two for New South Wales and two as a Wallaby.

Rugby league career

He joined the new rugby league code in its first year—1908, starting with the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Along with Dally Messenger, Denis Lutge, Doug McLean snr and Micky Dore he was one of the inaugural five Australian dual code rugby internationals who having earlier represented at rugby union, debuted in international rugby league in Sydney on 9 May 1908 in the first ever Australian league Test against New Zealand.

He spent three seasons at South Sydney playing 29 matches scoring 4 tries and 6 goals.He was a member of the 1910 Rabbitohs side that drew the Grand Final against Newtown but lost the premiership on countback.

He was selected on the pioneer 1908 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and played one tour match. For the 1911 and 1912 seasons he saw out his playing career with the Annandale club

In 1913 he was the first grade coach of the Rabbitohs.

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Scrum.com player profile of Johnny Rosewell". Scrum.com. http://www.scrum.com/australia/rugby/player/1909.html. Retrieved 12 July 2010.