Chris McKivat
Player information | ||
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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
- Chris McKivat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ place of birth according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography ; other sources name Cumnock , New South Wales as the place of birth.
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ NSW Rugby Players - All-Time List . New South Wales rugby archived from the original on October 16, 2009 ; accessed on August 9, 2014 .
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | McKivat, Chris |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKivat, Christopher Hobart |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian rugby union and rugby league player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1879 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Burrawang , New South Wales |
DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1941 |