Geoff Shaw (rugby)
| Full name | Geoffrey Arnold Shaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 December 1948 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kiama, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Edmund Rice College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Amateur team(s) | |||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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1972 1977–80 |
Illawarra Port Elizabeth University of Queensland |
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| Provincial / State sides | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1969-76 1977-80 |
New South Wales Queensland |
22 47 |
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1969-1979 | Australia | 27 | () |
Geoffrey Arnold Shaw (born 27 December 1948) is an Australian former national representative rugby union player who played for and captained the Wallabies. He made state representative appearances for both New South Wales and Queensland over an eleven-year period from 1969.
From the Illawarra region as a nineteen-year-old Shaw first represented for New South Wales Country against New Zealand in 1968. The following year he debuted for Australia in a Test match against Wales. In that same year 1969, Shaw was selected to tour with the Wallabies on the 1969 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa. Shaw was one of the new boys in the squad and at 20 years old, the youngest. He played in sixteen of the twenty-six matches including one Test match.
In 1970 Scotland toured Australia and Shaw went up against them for New South Wales, New South Wales Country and the Wallabies in one Test for a 23-3 victory. In 1971 Shaw played against the British & Irish Lions for New South Wales and against the visiting Springboks on the infamous tour which the subject of widespread anti-apartheid demonstrations. Shaw captained New South Wales Country against them, and was selected in the New South Wales side and the Australian side for all three Test matches. Shaw made the ten match 1971 Australia rugby union tour of France and played in both Tests and four tour matches.
Shaw married in 1972 and took a long sabbatical with his wife to South Africa, the British Isles and Europe. He made the Eastern Currie Cup team and the Junior Springboks. Shaw played for London Scottish and picked up matches in France and Italy.
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