Arthur Summons
Summons in 2008
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| Full name | Arthur James Summons | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 13 December 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Paddington, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Homebush High School | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, Club Manager | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Half-back | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fly half | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | ||
| 1965-67 | Wagga Magpies | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1960-64 | Wests Magpies | 60 | (33) |
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1961-63 | New South Wales | 7 | (0) |
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| National teams | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1961-64 | Australia | 9 | (12) |
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| Amateur clubs | |||
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| Years | Club / team | ||
| 1954-59 | Gordon RFC | ||
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1956–1959 | Australia | 10 | |
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Arthur James Summons (born 13 December 1935 in Paddington, Sydney, Australia) is a former Australian representative rugby union and rugby league player, a dual-code rugby international fly-half or five-eighth. He captained the Australian national rugby league team in five undefeated Tests from 1962 to 1964 and later also coached the side.
Summons was educated at the publicly funded selective Homebush Boys High School where he captained the school's first grade rugby union side. He represented for Combined High Schools and later captained a Sydney Combined Teacher's College side. He had also played junior Rugby League with the Mount Pritchard club.
He was graded with the Gordon Rugby Union Club and first represented for the Wallabies in tour matches against the Springboks in 1956. He toured the British Isles on 1957–58 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France, making his full debut in the first Test of the tour against Wales at Cardiff. He played in four Tests of the tour only missing the France Test. During the 1958 seasons he made four Test appearances against firstly the New Zealand Māori rugby union team and then three times against the All Blacks on the Wallaby tour of New Zealand. He made two further test appearances against the visiting British Lions in Sydney in 1959, concluding his rugby union career with ten total Wallaby Test caps.
With a young family and needing to improve his financial position, Summons signed with Western Suburbs in 1960. He played in the 3 consecutive heart breaking Wests Grand final losses to St George between 1961 and 1963.
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