Arthur Anlezark
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| Full name | Ernest Arthur Anlezark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 29 December 1882 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bathurst, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1961 (age 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Crewe, Cheshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Cotton broker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Five-eighth/Stand-off | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1909-14 | Oldham | 114 | () |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1908 | Queensland | () | |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1908 | Australia | 1 | () |
| Position(s) | fly-half | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1897-08 | Bathurst & Lismore | () | |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1905 | Australia | 1 | (0) |
Ernest Arthur "George" Anlezark (29 December 1882 - 1961), also went by 'Alec', was an Australian rugby league and rugby union player - a dual-code rugby international.
He was a pioneer Australian representative footballer selected in the first Australia national rugby union team overseas touring side to New Zealand in 1905 and representing the Kangaroos in the first Kangaroo tour of Great Britain in 1908.
Born in Bathurst, New South Wales he was a regular in NSW Country and NSW representative teams before being selected as fly-half in Australia's first rugby union touring team which played a Test against New Zealand in Dunedin on 2 September 1905.
Playing in the country, Anlezark found it difficult to re-gain selection to the Australian representative team in the following year, especially after moving to Lismore for his work with the NSW Railways.
Anlezark arrived in Brisbane in 1908 and first played rugby league for Queensland Maroons against a touring New Zealand Maori team. He then played against New South Wales in the first ever interstate fixture before being chosen for Australia in the inaugural international game against the New Zealand Māori.
He was selected in the pioneer Kangaroo touring side of 1908 and playing at half-back alongside Dally Messenger. Two months later in the 3rd Test against England which Australia lost 6-5, Anlezark made his debut Kangaroo Test appearance becoming at that point the 10th ever dual rugby-code Australian international. He captained Australia in the final four tour games of the trip.
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