Herbert Moran
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| Full name | Herbert Michael Moran | ||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Paddy | ||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 April 1885 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rose Bay, New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 20 November 1945 (aged 60) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Cambridge | ||||||||||||
| School | St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill | ||||||||||||
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University of Sydney Edinburgh University |
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| Position | flanker | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1903 1905-07 1908 |
Rose Bay Sydney Uni Newcastle RUFC |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1906–08 | New South Wales | 6 | |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1908 |
 Australia
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1 Tests | |
Herbert Michael "Paddy" Moran (29 April 1885 – 20 November 1945) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative flanker who captained the Wallabies on their first overseas tour in 1908-09.
Moran was born to Irish Catholic parents though his mother died in childbirth when he was five. His father had emigrated to Sydney in 1876 and laboured until he had sufficient savings to buy a bakery business in inner-city Chippendale. He struggled after his partner disappeared leaving Moran senior well in debt but found later prosperity. Young Paddy was first schooled in inner-Sydney at Darlington Superior School, then briefly at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill before St Aloysius' Surry Hills. In his book Viewless Winds, Moran wrote that he played no more than two games of rugby football for his college in his time there.
He commenced his medical studies at Sydney University still aged 15 in 1901 and in 1903 started playing senior rugby with the Rose Bay club. He first turned out for the Sydney University Football Club in 1904 as a prop in second grade and from 1905 to 1907 he earned University Blues in the senior grade, captaining the club in 1907. He made state representative appearances for New South Wales in 1906 and 1907.
After completing his under-graduate studies he had a year in residence at Newcastle Hospital where he captained a Newcastle club side who toured to Sydney and beat a strong Metropolitan (Sydney) side. This again brought him to the attention of selectors and he represented again that year for the state.
Perhaps surprisingly given his overall lack of captaincy experience Moran was selected as tour captain for Australia's first Wallabies on the 1908-09 tour of the British Isles and North America.
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