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Alfred Walker (rugby union)

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in 1986 as official Test matches. Thus Walker's fifteen Waratahs' appearances against international sides from 1920, including the eleven when he captained the side, were all later decreed as Tests. Walker took over the Waratahs captaincy from the first match against the visiting
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Walaker captained the Waratahs on their 1921 tour of New Zealand playing in eight games of the tour and the sole Test in Christchurch. Over the next three years Walker played for the Waratahs in nine further international matches against touring
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All told Walker claimed a total of sixteen international rugby Test caps for Australia, eleven as captain. In retirement he became a state selector.
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which Australia won 12–8. He did not gain state or national selection in the few Tests and touring matches of the 1913 and 1914 Australian seasons.
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side of the period and a number of their fixtures of 1920s played against full international opposition were decreed by the
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in August 1918 and returned to Melbourne in April 1919 with discharge in May 1919.
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On his return to rugby in Sydney post-war Walker became club captain at
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from the 4th General Service Reinforcement. He embarked for Egypt in
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1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States
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administration or competition in place from 1919 to 1929, the
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teams, captaining the side in seven of those matches.
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Eastern Suburbs
New South Wales
Wallabies
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Sydney Grammar
Eastern Suburbs club
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1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States
United States
1st AIF
World War I
1st Light Horse
Easts
New South Wales
All Blacks
Queensland Rugby Union
New South Wales Waratahs
rugby union
Australian Rugby Union
South Africans
Sydney Showground
All Black
NZ Maori

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