Greg Davis (rugby)
| Birth name | Gregory Victor Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 July 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Matamata, NZ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 24 July 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Rotorua, NZ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sacred Heart College, Auckland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Wool classer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| . . . 1963-72 |
Katikati Otahuhu Tauranga Drummoyne DRFC |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1963-72 | New South Wales | 27 | () |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1963-72 |
 Australia
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Gregory Victor Davis (1939 - 1979) was a New Zealand born, national representative rugby union player for Australia. He played at flanker and made seven international tours with Wallaby squads. He was the Australian national captain in 47 matches from 1969 to 1972 and led the Wallaby side on three overseas tours.
Born in New Zealand, Greg Davis played for Katikati in the Thames Valley, for Otahuhu in Auckland and for Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty. He trialled for the All Blacks in 1961 and moved to Australia in 1963 and there joined the Drummoyne Rugby Club Davis was immediately selected for both New South Wales and Australia in his first year in Sydney. He debuted in a Sydney Test match against England in June 1963 and the following month was selected in the squad for the 1963 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa. He played in all four Test matches of the tied series and in ten other tour matches. The next year he made the 1964 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand playing in seven of the eight matches including all three Tests.
He represented in Sydney in 1965 in a Test against the Springboks and in 1966 in two Tests British & Irish Lions. The next year he made the 1966–67 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France and played in twenty of the thirty-six matches including all five Tests. In 1967 he was in the Wallaby side that travelled to New Zealand for the 75th Jubilee Test and in 1968 he made the short tour of Ireland and Scotland.
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