Peter Burge (rugby)
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| Full name | Peter Harold Boyne Burge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 14 February 1884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Penrith, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 15 July 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Hurstville, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Burge Family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Second-Row Forward | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1910 1911-14 |
South Sydney Glebe Dirty Reds |
1 15 |
(0) (3) |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1911-12 | Australia | 0 | () |
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| Years | Team | ||
| 1937 | St George Dragons | ||
| Position(s) | lock | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1904-08 | South Sydney | () | |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1905-08 | New South Wales | 3 | () |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1907 | Australia | 3 | (0) |
Peter Harold Boyne Burge (14 February 1884 – 15 July 1956) was an Australian rugby footballer and coach. He represented his country in both rugby league and rugby union. The eldest of the four Burge brothers, Peter was one of the first Australian dual-code rugby internationals.
Playing rugby union with South Sydney in 1904 the twenty-year-old Burge was selected for the Metropolis (City) representative side against the Great Britain tourists. When the All Blacks toured in 1905 Burge played against them firstly for Metropolis and then in a New South Wales side.
Burge, a lock claimed a total of three international rugby caps for Australia. In two of these matches, he served as captain. His debut game was against New Zealand, at Sydney, on 20 July 1907. He made two rugby union tours, to New Zealand in 1905 with the first full Australian team and later on the epic 1908-09 Australia rugby union tour of the British Isles and France under captain Paddy Moran. On both trips he only played one game due to injury. On the Wallaby tour of 1908 he broke his tibia in his first match against Devon. He took no further part in the tour and one of the replacements sent over to fill the touring squad was his brother Albert Burge.
He was one of the fourteen 1908-09 Wallabies including Chris McKivat, Charles McMurtie, "Boxer" Russell and Arthur McCabe who defected to rugby league after their return from the Olympics and the epic tour. In Burge's case he joined his brother Alby in the 1909 "Wallabies v Kangaroos" promotional match which then disqualified him from the amateur code.
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