Malcolm McArthur

Mannie McArthur

Birth name	Malcolm Julian McArthur[1]
Date of birth	(1882-07-30)30 July 1882[1]
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales[1]
Date of death	6 July 1961(1961-07-06) (aged 78)
Rugby union career
Position(s) flanker[1] National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1909[1] Wallabies[1] 1[1] (0[1])
Medal record Men's rugby union Representing  Australasia Olympic Games 1908 London Team competition

Malcolm Julian "Mannie" McArthur (30 July 1882 – 6 July 1961) was an Australian rugby union national representative rugby union player. He won a gold medal in rugby at the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Rugby career[]

McArthur's rugby career was played with the Eastern Suburbs RUFC in Sydney, Australia. He was selected in Australia's inaugural national rugby team to tour the northern hemisphere - Dr Paddy Moran's First Wallabies for the 1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain.

1908 Olympic Gold Final Wallabies v Cornwall.

McArthur front row in white jersey, with the 1908 Wallaby tour squad

At the time the rugby tournament for the London Olympics game may not have appeared to be of great significance. Australia had already beaten Cornwall, the British county champions early in the tour and Scotland, Ireland and France had all turned down the Rugby Football Union's invitation to participate in the Olympic bouts. Neither the tour captain Moran, nor the vice-captain Fred Wood played, so Chris McKivat led the Wallabies to an easy 32–3 victory and to Olympic glory, with each Wallaby in that match thereafter an Olympic gold medallist.

McArthur made his Test debut on that tour at Rectory Field, Blackheath in the Test against England in January 1909 - a match won by Australia 9–3.

See also[]

• Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Footnotes[]

External links[]

• Mannie McArthur at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 March 2007)
• Mannie McArthur at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Mannie McArthur at the International Olympic Committee