Johnnie Wallace
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| Full name | Arthur Cooper Wallace | ||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Johnnie | ||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 October 1900 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Macksville, New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 3 November 1975 (aged 75) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | The Entrance, New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| School | Sydney Grammar School | ||||||||||||
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University of Sydney Oxford University |
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| Position | wing,centre | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1920-21 1926-30 |
Sydney University Glebe-Balmain RUFC |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1921-28 | New South Wales | 30 | |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1921-28 1923-26 |
Australia Scotland |
8 9 |
(15) (33) |
Arthur Cooper "Johnnie" Wallace (5 October 1900 – 3 November 1975) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative three-quarter who captained the Waratahs (the national side at the time) on 25 occasions in the 1920s as well as representing for Scotland early in his career.
Wallace arrived at St Andrew's College at Sydney University in 1920 to study law and at the University rugby club he came under the influence of Hyram Marks, who had been senior to Wallace at Sydney Grammar and who was the club's first Wallaby representative. His potential was obvious and in 1921 he was selected in the New South Wales side picked to tour New Zealand. He played in five of the ten tour matches including the September 1921 fixture against a New Zealand XV which is now regarded as a Test match.
With no Queensland Rugby Union administration or competition in place from 1919 to 1929, the New South Wales Waratahs were the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period and a number of the fixtures of 1920s which were played against full international opposition were decreed by the Australian Rugby Union in 1986 as official Test matches.
In 1922 Wallace won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he won University "blues" in 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925.
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