Chris McKivat

Chris McKivat

Player information
Full name	Christopher Hobart McKivat
birthday	November 27, 1879
place of birth	Burrawang , New South Wales , Australia
date of death	May 4, 1941
Place of death	Camperdown , New South Wales, Australia
size	1.75 m
society
society	Career ended
position	Half of the crowd
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
1895-1900	Bowen Brothers	()
1900-05	Wellington	()
1905	Live rugby union	()
1910-14	Follow Dirty Reds	54 (15)
Provinces as active
Years	province	Games (points)
1903-04	Central Western	()
1905-1909	New South Wales	16 ()
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1907-09	Australia (rugby union)	4 (0)
1910-12	Australia (rugby league)	5 (12)
Coaching stations
Years	Association / Province / Franchise
1915-20	Follow Dirty Reds
1915-20	North Sydney Bears
1920-22	North Sydney Bears
1928	Western suburbs

Christopher Hobart "Chris" McKivat (alternative spelling McKivatt ; born November 27, 1879 in Burrawang , New South Wales ; † May 4, 1941 ) was an Australian rugby player who was the successor of both Australia's rugby code teams on successful tours British Isles was. He also led the rugby union selection , the Wallabies , to Olympic victory in 1908 . Considered one of the best Australian halfbacks of all time in both codes.

Rugby union

McKivat lived in Cumnock , Cabonne Shire until about 1888 , before his family moved to Orange , where he played rugby for the first time at the local school run by the Patrician Brothers . In 1897 he played for the first time at the adult level for the team Bowen Bros Tannery from Orange, whose captain he was from 1901 to 1904. In 1905 he went to the Sydney suburban club Glebe Rugby Union and was appointed to the first of a total of 16 games for the selection of New South Wales, the Waratahs . With Glebe he won the Sydney championship in 1906 and 1907, and in 1908 he was finally captain of the team that became Australian club champions that same year.

Because of his good performance for the Waratahs he was in 1907 for two games against the All Blacks in the Australian rugby union selection and in 1908 was part of the Wallabies' first European tour. Because of an injury to the actual captain of the team, he was captain of the Wallabies for some games , including in the game against the selection of the County of Cornwall , which was the official final of the 1908 Olympic rugby tournament. In this game scored a try and became an Olympic champion . After the Olympics, he returned to Australia in the spring of 1909.

Rugby league

After returning to Sydney McKivat played a friendly game against the Australian national rugby league team , the Kangaroos, with about ten to 14 other tour returnees as Wallabies . Since the team had accepted bonuses for the game - McKivat received £ 150 - he was excluded from the pure amateur game operation of the rugby union leagues by the Rugby Union Association. He switched to the rugby league code . In 1910 he began playing for Glebe Rugby League and was on the squad for all three Tests against the Great Britain selection - one of which was an Australasian selection from Australians and New Zealanders. When the Kangaroos went on a tour to Great Britain in 1911/12, McKivat became their captain. He was used in 32 of a total of 36 games, including each of the three international matches against the British selection. After returning, he ended his international career, but played for Glebe until 1914.

Trainer

After his playing days, McKivat was a part-time rugby league coach. Among other things, he headed the Glebe Dirty Reds from 1915 to 1920 and the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1928 . However, he achieved his greatest success with the North Sydney Bears , which he was able to lead in 1921 and 1922 to the championship of the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership .

Honors

McKivat was inducted into the Sporting Hall of Fame for the City of Orange and in 2005 the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame .

Web links

Commons : Chris McKivat  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Chris McKivat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ place of birth according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography ; other sources name Cumnock , New South Wales as the place of birth.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chris Cunneen: McKivat, Christopher Hobart (1879–1941). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography , Online Edition. Australian National University , 1986, accessed September 4, 2009 (Digitized 2006; ISSN  1833-7538 ). 
3. ↑ Eric C. Rolls, Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, Paul Cliff: A sporting nation: celebrating Australia's sporting life , National Library of Australia, Canberra 1999, ISBN 0-642-10704-1 , p. 39.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Sporting Hall of Fame . Orange City Council , archived from the original on July 5, 2009 ; accessed on August 9, 2014 .  
5. ^ NSW Rugby Players - All-Time List . New South Wales rugby archived from the original on October 16, 2009 ; accessed on August 9, 2014 .  
6. ^ Murray George Phillips: From guidelines to center field: a history of sports coaching in Australia , University of New South Wales Press 2000, ISBN 0-86840-410-1 ; P. 26f.
7. ^ Hall of Fame . Australian Rugby League , archived from the original on March 24, 2009 ; accessed on June 14, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).