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Bob Craig (rugby)

Bob Craig
Bob Craig 1908.jpg
1908 Wallaby
Full name Robert Robertson Craig
Date of birth (1881-09-01)1 September 1881
Place of birth Sydney, NSW
Date of death 5 March 1935(1935-03-05) (aged 53)
Place of death Leichhardt, New South Wales
Rugby league career
Position Second rower
Professional clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1910-19 Balmain 92 (47)
State Representation
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1910-11 New South Wales 2 (0)
National teams
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1910-14 Australia 7 (3)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position hooker,lock
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1907 New South Wales
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1908 Australia 1 (0)
Olympic medal record
Men's Rugby union
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Team competition

Robert Robertson 'Bob' Craig (1 September 1881 – 5 March 1935) was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer who represented his country at both sports. He was one of Australia's early dual-code rugby internationals. He was a member of the Australian rugby union team, which won the gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Prior to his rugby careers Craig was one of Australia's greatest all-round sportsmen. He won eight consecutive State swimming championships between 1899 and 1906; he appeared in four Sydney premiership winning water polo sides and in 1905 he was a member of the Balmain soccer club which that year won the State premiership.

Craig toured Britain and North America with the 1908-09 Wallabies and at the end of that tour won Olympic Gold medal in London in the team captained by Chris McKivat. On his return to Australia he joined the fledgling code of rugby league along with 13 of his Olympic teammates.

His club football was played with the Balmain Tigers whom he helped to win four premierships between 1915 and 1919.

Craig made his international league debut in the First Test in Sydney on 18 June 1910. Four of his former Wallaby team mates also debuted that day John Barnett, Jack Hickey, Charles Russell and Chris McKivat - making them collectively Australia's 11th to 15th dual code internationals. This repeated a similar occurrence two years earlier when five former Wallabies in Micky Dore, Dally Messenger, Denis Lutge, Doug McLean snr and Johnny Rosewell all debuted for the Kangaroos in the first ever Test against New Zealand, he also represented Australasia.


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