Dan Carroll (rugby player)

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Daniel Carroll
Dan Carrol 1908 - Rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games - Australian team photo - Enlarged detail.jpg
Player information
Full name Daniel Brendon Carroll
birthday November 17, 1887
place of birth Melbourne , Australia
date of death 5th August 1956
Place of death New Orleans , United States
society
society Career ended
position Inside three quarters , connecting
half outside three quarters , scrum half
Provinces as active
Years province Games (points)
New South Wales Waratahs ()
National team
Years National team Games (points)
1908-12 Australia 2 (3)
1913-20 United States 3 (0)
Coaching stations
Years Association / Province / Franchise
1920-1924 United States

Dan Carroll (actually Daniel Brendan Carroll ; born November 17, 1887 in Melbourne , Australia , † August 5, 1956 in New Orleans , United States ) was an Australian-American rugby union player and coach. He became Olympic rugby champion with both the Australian ( 1908 ) and US ( 1920 ) selection , becoming the first person to win gold for two different nations. He was also the coach of both US winning teams at Olympic rugby tournaments (1920, 1924 ).

biography

Dan Carroll grew up in Sydney , where he played for the Uniteams from St Aloysius College and the University of Sydney as well as for the Club St George . After good performances for the selection of New South Wales against Queensland and an Anglo-Welsh selection, he was appointed in 1908 - as the youngest player - in the squad of Australia's first selection, the original Wallabies, for a tour of Europe and North America. He made 15 attempts on this tour, two of them in the final of the Olympic rugby tournament. He came to his first international match against Wales .

In 1912 Carroll was called up again in a Wallaby touring team, this time it went to British Columbia and the United States. Carroll stayed in California after completing the tour to study geology at Stanford University . In 1913 he was already playing for the US team, his first international match was a devastating 51-3 defeat against the All Blacks .

During the First World War , Carroll served as captain of the US Army infantry . He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross . After the Allied victory, he played rugby again for his old homeland, on the Australian team of the ANZAC at the King's Cup .

Carroll was the player-coach of the rugby team at Stanford University when he was called up in the 1920's Eagles squad for the Olympic rugby tournament. As a player-coach for the Eagles, he won the Olympic gold medal. In 1924 he was reactivated as a coach for the tournament in Paris.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth is often given incorrectly as 1892; See: Bill Mallon, Ian Buchanan: The 1908 Olympic Games: results for all competitors in all events, with commentary , McFarland & Co., 2000, p. 484.
  2. ↑ Overview of Olympic records
  3. ↑ a b c d e Spiro Zavos: Dan Carroll: rugby's greatest Olympian. In: The Roar . The Roar Sports Opinion, August 8, 2008, accessed September 2, 2009 .
  4. ^ Scrum database: Entry on Danny Carroll. ESPN , accessed September 2, 2009 .
  5. ^ Dan Carroll in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  6. ↑ Ian Buchanan: Rugby Football at the Olympic Games (PDF; 37 kB) , In: Journal of Olympic History , Vol.1, No 1, Spring 1997, p. 12ff, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Carroll, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carroll, Daniel Brendan; Carrol, Danny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-American rugby union player
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1956
Place of death New Orleans , United States