Hyram Marks
| Birth name | Hyam A. Marks[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 June 1872[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sydney, NSW [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 17 August 1957 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sydney Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hyram A. Marks (8 June 1872 – c. 1957) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Marks, a lock, was born in Sydney, NSW and attended Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University. He claimed two international rugby caps for Australia and was the University rugby club's first Wallaby representative. [2]His Test debut was against Great Britain, at Sydney, on 24 June 1899, the inaugural rugby Test match played by an Australian national representative side.
Due to funding constraints he was one of only six New South Wales players (Charlie Ellis, Bob McCowan, Lonnie Spragg, Peter Ward & Robert Challoner) selected to make the trip to Brisbane four weeks later for the second Test.[3] His performance in that match was noted as excellent by the press.[4]
Sources
- Collection (1995) Gordon Bray presents The Spirit of Rugby, Harper Collins Publishers Sydney
- Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead - Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ
Footnotes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite weburl=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pPdjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_-QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2831%2C4249846 title=The Sidney Morning Herald obituary August 20th 1957 publisher=Google.com accessdate=19 July 2013}}
- ↑ Spirit of Rugby p80, preface to Ch5
- ↑ Howell p19
- ↑ "INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL". Queanbeyan Age. 26 July 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 8 August 2010.