Cyril Towers
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| Full name | Cyril Towers | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 30 July 1906 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mansfield, Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 June 1985 (aged 78) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Randwick, Sydney | ||||||||||||
| School | Roma High School Waverley College Randwick Boys High |
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| Position | Centre | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1926–1940 | Randwick DRUFC | 233 | |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1926–1938 | New South Wales | 82 | |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1926–1937 | Australia | 19 | |
Cyril Towers (30 July 1906 – 9 June 1985) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative centre who made 57 appearances for the Wallabies, played in 19 Test matches and captained the national side on three occasions in 1937.
Born in Melbourne and raised in Queensland, Towers' club career was with Randwick DRUFC in Sydney for whom he made 233 first grade appearances. Along with Wally Meagher his senior at Randwick, Towers pioneered the application of running rugby tactics at the club. "Attack" was the main credo, setting up the wings the main goal and kicking for touch was frowned upon.
His representative debut was as a 19-year-old in 1926 when selected for the New South Wales Waratahs to appear against a touring All Blacks outfit. New South Wales won the match 26–20 and Towers was recalled for the fourth encounter which the hosts lost 21–28. With no Queensland Rugby Union administration or competition in place from 1919 to 1929, the New South Wales Waratahs were the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period and these debut matches were in 1986 decreed by the Australian Rugby Union as official Test matches.
Towers was selected for the 1927-28 Waratahs tour of Britain, France and Canada, turning 21 on the ship going over. He played in 25 matches of the tour exceeded only by Wylie Breckenbridge (29), Tom Lawton (27) and Alex Ross (29). With Jack Ford he was the equal top try scorer and the equal second highest point scorer behind Lawton. He played in three Test matches of the tour.
He wrote a travel diary of the 1927–28 tour which was serialised between June and December 1928 for the magazine Australian Banker. (Towers worked in banking). His Test match reports are quoted extensively in the tour article.
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