Fred Wood (rugby union)
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| Full name | Frederick Wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Possum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 21 January 1884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Staffordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 15 July 1924 (aged 40) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 10 st 7 lb (67 kg; 147 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | scrum-half | ||
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| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1903 | Glebe RUFC | 112 | () |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1905-14 | New South Wales | 45 | () |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1907-14 |
 Wallabies
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Frederick Wood (21 January 1884 – 15 July 1924) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative half-back. He was vice-captain of the Wallabies on their first overseas tour in 1908-09 and later captained the side in Test matches in 1910 and 1914. His representative career lasted from 1905 to 1914.
Wood played for the Glebe club in Sydney and first attracted attention when he represented in a 1905 Metropolitan (Sydney) side against the touring New Zealand side. He was then selected in the second match for New South Wales against those same All Blacks.
A full Australian team was selected the next day - the first national side to tour overseas and Wood was selected at half-back in the 1905 side captained by Stan Wickham which toured New Zealand. Wood played in four tour matches of the seven contested by the side, but did not figure in the sole Test.
In 1907, Wood was selected for New South Wales to meet the visiting All Blacks and played two matches alongside Chris McKivat in the halves with the first a narrow loss and the second a 14-0 victory to the Waratahs. Both McKivat and Wood were selected in the Australian test side captained by Peter Burge to meet those same All Blacks but the Wallabies were well-beaten 6-26. Woods held his spot for the 2nd Test (a loss to Australia) and the 3rd (a 5-all draw).
In 1908 an Anglo-Welsh side toured Australia and Wood was honoured with the state captaincy for New South Wales in the first of the two encounters he played against them.
Wood was selected as vice-captain on the first Wallaby 1908-09 Australia rugby union tour of the British Isles and France, the squad captained by Herbert Moran. Wood and Joshua Stevenson were the selected halfbacks but with Stevenson injured in the fifth tour game the selectors were forced to look at other halves combinations amongst Chris McKivatt, Arthur McCabe and Ward Prentice who were also in the squad. Wood was unavailable with injury for a run of five games and McKivatt seized the opportunity with both hands and played in both Tests at half-back and captained the side in the Olympic gold medal bout against Cornwall.
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