Alan Cameron (rugby)
| Full name | Alan Stewart Cameron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 November 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 20 March 2010 (aged 80) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Newington College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Stock Auctioneer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Second Row | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1948–57 | NSW | 26 | () |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1951–58 |
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Alan Stewart Cameron (18 November 1929 – 20 March 2010) was an Australian rugby union footballer of the 1950s and 60s. A State and national representative lock-forward he made twenty Test appearances and over fifty additional tour match appearances for the Wallabies, captaining the national side in four Tests matches.
Cameron attended Newington College from 1945 to 1948 and was selected in the GPS combined team in 1946 and 1947. After school he joined the St George Rugby Union Football Club and would go on to play 266 games for the club. In his debut year in grade and after only five club matches he was selected in the New South Wales Waratahs side to meet Queensland in the annual inter-state series. He made twenty-six State representative appearances between 1948 and 1957.
He made his international representative debut for the Wallabies against the All Blacks in Sydney in June 1951 debuting alongside other future Test captains in Dick Tooth and Keith Winning and played in all three Tests of that series. For the next five-year he was an automatic selection in Australian Test sides and touring squads and he formed a formidable second-row partnership with Nick Shehadie controlling the Australian line-out and ever working hard in the tight forward play. He toured New Zealand twice (1952 and 1955), South Africa in 1953 and Europe and America on the 1957–58 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France. He usually played in a high proportion of all the tour matches as well as the Tests. At home he played in Test series against visiting All Blacks sides in 1951 and 1957, Fiji in 1952 and 1954 and the South Africa in 1956.
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