Jack Barnett

John Barnett

Player information
Full name	Jack Barnett
birthday	January 19, 1881
place of birth	Tuena, New South Wales , Australia
date of death	1918 or 1951
society
society	Career ended
position	Second row striker
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
1903-09	Newtown RUFC	()
1906	Lithgow RU	()
1910-11	New South Wales Blues	3 (0)
1910-15	Newtown Jets	74 (18)
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1907-09	Australia (rugby union)	2 (6)
1910	Australia (rugby league)	5 (0)

Jack "Jumbo" / "Browser" Barnett (actually John Thomas Barnett ; born January 19, 1881 in Tuena, New South Wales , † 1918 or 1951 ) was an Australian rugby union and rugby league player; with the Australian rugby union selection , he was also 1908 Olympic champion .

Jack Barnett played as Prop Rugby Union at the club at Newton RUFC when he came in 1907 for the first of five Tests for the Wallabies, the Australian rugby union selection. He completed his first three tests within three weeks in late July / early August of that year against the All Blacks , who toured Australia. Because of his outstanding performance, at the age of 27 he was appointed as the oldest player in the squad of the first Wallaby tour in the northern hemisphere in 1908/09 . On the tour he was a regular player, scored six points and two attempts and was featured in the three most important games: in both tests of the tour against England and Wales , as well as the only game of the Olympic rugby tournament against the county selection from Cornwall for the United Kingdom .

Barnett was one of the Wallabies who completed a demonstration game after the end of the tour as Wallabies against the Rugby League national team of Australia and were therefore banned by the Rugby Union Association. Barnett went like many of his teammates to the Newtown Jets , for whom he played 1910-15 and won the 1910 National Championship of New South Wales. He was also soon appointed to the squad of the Australian rugby league selection; he was used in two games of the 1910 edition of the Ashes against Great Britain .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data from ESPNScrum - Alan Whiticker: Captaining the Kangaroos , Sydney 2004, ISBN 1741100410 , p. 34 names 1886 as the year of birth and 1918 as the year of death.
2. ^ Scrum database: entry for Jack "Bowser" Barnett. ESPN , accessed October 27, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Chris Thau: A century of Wallaby touring (Part 1). The International Rugby Board, October 21, 2008, archived from the original October 24, 2008 ; Retrieved October 27, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Online offer for the exhibition in The World Rugby Museum of the RFU (October 4, 2008 - April 24, 2009) - panels 1 and 2 ( memento from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) pdf , panels 3 to 12 ( memento from November 22nd, 2008 ) 2008 in the Internet Archive ) pdf , panel 3; Retrieved October 27, 2009.
5. ↑ Sean Fagan: Newtown Jets / Bluebags. In: RL1908 . Retrieved October 27, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Sean Fagan: 1910 - Stunning Goal Gives Newtown The Title. In: RL1908 . Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved October 27, 2009 .