Bill Tyquin

Bill Tyquin

Captain of Qld 1949
Personal information
Full name	Ignatius William Tyquin
Born	1919 Brisbane, Queensland
Died	17 August 1999 Brisbane, Queensland
Playing information
Position	Lock
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1938–1939	Souths Brisbane
1940	Brothers Brisbane
1941	St. George Dragons	15				24
1945–1950	Souths Brisbane
	Total	15	0	0	0	24
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1941	New South Wales	1				0
1945–1949	Queensland	12				0
1948–1949	Australia	6				9

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

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.

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]

Representative career

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.

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.

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.

Representative statistics

Team	Matches	Years
New South Wales	1	1941
Queensland	9	1945-49
Australia	6	1948-9

References

Sources

• Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney
• Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
• Queensland representatives at qrl.com.au

Footnotes

1. ↑ Whiticker quote p145

v t e Souths Magpies Team of the Century (1909-2008) 1. Gary Belcher 2. Mitch Brennan 3. Mal Meninga 4. Bruce Astill 5. John Grant 6. Ted Verrenkamp 7. Norm McLean 8. Jack Veivers 9. Alan Hornery 10. Greg Veivers 11. Bill Tyquin 12. Harry Bath 13. Harold Crocker 14. Len Pegg 15. Mick Veivers 16. Chris Phelan 17. Graeme Atherton Coach: Wayne Bennett

v t e St. George squad - 1941 NSWRFL Premiers (1st title) 1. Jack Wedgwood 2. Owen Campbell 3. Gordon Hart 4. Jack Gilbert 5. Noel Jones 6. Roy Hasson 7. Albert McAndrew 8. Charlie Montgomery 9. Herb Gilbert, Jr. 10. Lindsay Spencer 11. Neville Smith (Ca./Co.) 12. Len Kelly 13. Bill Tyquin

Persondata
Name	Tyquin, Bill
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	1919
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Date of death	17 August 1999
Place of death	Brisbane, Queensland