Mick Madsen
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Personal information
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| Full name | Mads Peter Madsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Mick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1900 Tannymorel, Queensland |
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| Died | 2 February 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mads Peter "Mick" Madsen (1900 – 2 February 1979) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a front-row forward for the Australian national team. He played in nine Tests between 1929 and 1936 as captain on one occasion and has since been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Born in Tannymorel near Warwick, Queensland he attended Toowoomba Grammar School and played rugby league there. He was a seasonal labourer in country Queensland when at age 20 he played in a game against the visiting Toowoomba Brothers club who signed him up. Madsen went on to play his entire first grade career of 17 seasons with the Brothers club. He first represented for Queensland at age 27 and then consistently for the next 9 years making a then record of 34 appearances against New South Wales. He made his Test debut against England in the first Test of the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He played in the 2nd Test loss and 17 tour matches before a broken jaw rule him out of further appearances. He played in all three Tests of the 1932 Ashes series in Australia.
Madsen made his 2nd Kangaroo Tour on the 1933–34 tour to Great Britain and played in 25 tour matches and three Tests. He made his sole appearance as captain of the Kangaroos in the 2nd Test at Headingley in November 1933 following injury to tour captain Frank McMillan. Australia lost the game 7–5 in front of a crowd of 30,000 with all of Australia's points scored by the 1930s point scoring sensation Dave Brown.
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