John Barnett (rugby)

Infobox Rugby biography
name=John Barnett
birthname=John Thomas Barnett
nickname = Jumbo/Jack/Bowser
dateofbirth=18 January 1886
placeofbirth = Sydney, NSW
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John Thomas "Jumbo" Barnett (born January 19, 1886 [www.scrum.com source reports his date of birth as Jan 19 1881] - 1951) was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league player and represented his country at both sports. He was one of the Australia's early dual code rugby internationals.

Rugby union career

A hooker/prop with the Newtown Rugby Union club in Sydney, Barnett was selected on the first Wallaby tour of England in 1908-1909, the squad captained by Chris McKivat. That side competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and Barnett was a member of the Australia national rugby union team which won the gold medal.

On his return to Australia he joined the fledgling code of rugby league along with fourteen of his Olympic teammates.

Rugby league career

Barnett and five other gold medal winning Wallabies joined the Newtown club in Sydney in 1910 where he played the next six seasons. He was selected in both Ashes Tests against Great Britain in 1910 when Australia hosted the tourists.

Barnett made his international league debut in the First Test in Sydney on 18 June 1910. Four of his former Wallaby team mates also debuted that day Bob Craig, Jack Hickey, Charles Russell and Chris McKivat - making them collectively Australia's 11th to 15th dual code internationals. This mirrored a similar occurrence two years earlier when five former Wallabies in Micky Dore, Dally Messenger, Denis Lutge, Doug McLean snr and
Johnny Rosewell all debuted for the Kangaroos in the same match - the first ever Test against New Zealand.

ources

* Whiticker, Alan (2004) "Captaining the Kangaroos", New Holland, Sydney
* Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) "The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players", Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney

External links

* [http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BARNEJOH01 profile]

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