Jack Hickey (rugby)

Jack Hickey

John Hickey posing with test cap and team kit
Full name	John Joseph Hickey
Date of birth	4 June 1887
Place of birth	Sydney, NSW
Date of death	15 May 1950(1950-05-15) (aged 63)
Place of death	Darlinghurst, New South Wales
Rugby league career
Position(s) Three-quarter Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1910-15 1911 Glebe Balmain 54 10 (100) (26) National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1910 Australia 2 (5)
Rugby union career
Position(s) centre National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1908-09 Australia 2 (0)

Olympic medal record
Men's Rugby union
	1908 London	Team competition

Jack 'Darb' Hickey (4 January 1887 – 15 May 1950) was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league player and represented his country at both sports. He was one of the Australia's early dual-code rugby internationals. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was famous for scoring the first ever try for the Kangaroos in a Rugby League test match.

Hickey toured Britain and North America with the Wallabies captained by Paddy Moran in 1908-09. He earned two Test caps against Wales and England on the tour and was a member of the Olympic gold medal winning Wallabies at the 1908 London games.

On his return to Australia he joined the fledgling code of rugby league along with 13 of his Olympic teammates.

Hickey made his international league debut in the First Test in Sydney on 18 June 1910. Four of his former Wallaby team mates also debuted that day John Barnett, Bob Craig, Charles Russell and Chris McKivat - making them collectively Australia's 11th to 15th dual code internationals. This mirrored a similar occurrence two years earlier when five former Wallabies in Micky Dore, Dally Messenger, Denis Lutge, Doug McLean snr and Johnny Rosewell all debuted for the Kangaroos in the first ever Test against New Zealand.