| 词条 | Bill Hardcastle |
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|name=Bill Hardcastle |birth_name = William Robert Hardcastle[1] |birth_date= {{birth date|1874|8|30|df=y}}[1] |birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand | death_date= {{death date and age|1944|7|11|1874|8|30|df=y}}[1] | death_place= Randwick[1] |height= |weight= |ru_position= flanker[1] |ru_amateurclubs= Petone Melrose Glebe RUFC |ru_amateuryears =1895–97 1897–98 1899–1908 | ru_nationalyears = 1897 1899–1903[1] | ru_nationalteam = New Zealand Australia | ru_nationalcaps = 0 2[1] | ru_nationalpoints = (0) (0)[1] | ru_province = Wellington North Island {{nowrap|New South Wales}} | ru_provinceyears = 1895–97 1897 1899 | ru_provincecaps = | ru_provincepoints = | ru_coachclubs = | ru_coachyears = | rl_position = Second rower | sooyears = 1908 | sooteam = Queensland | soocaps = 2 | soopoints = (0) | rl_nationalteam = Australia | rl_nationalyears = 1910–14 | rl_nationalcaps = 7 | rl_nationalpoints = (3) | rl_amateuryears = | rl_amateurclubs = | rl_clubyears = 1908 1909–10 | rl_proclubs = Ipswich Glebe Dirty Reds | rl_clubcaps = 13 | rl_clubpoints = (18) | occupation = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | school = Petone High | university = }} William Robert "Bill" Hardcastle (30 August 1874 – 11 July 1944) born in Wellington, New Zealand was a pioneer New Zealand and Australian rugby union player and an Australian rugby league footballer. He represented both countries in union and Australia in league. He was one of the first dual-code rugby internationals. Rugby union careerHardcastle commenced his club rugby in New Zealand with Petone and represented for Wellington from 1895 to 1897. He joined the Melrose club in 1897 and was selected in a North Island representative side from where he was selected for the All Blacks 1897 tour of Australia he played in seven tour matches but no Tests. He journeyed to Sydney in 1899 on hearing that the visiting British and Irish Lions would be not be travelling any further than Sydney. Australian rugby in those days had no residential rules and once they took the field with a Sydney club, players qualified as Australians for possible national selection. He played for the Glebe rugby union club in Sydney from where he was chosen to play as flanker for the Australian representative team in the fourth test of 1899 against the first British side to tour Australia, at Sydney, on 12 August. He also played for Australia in 1903 in Sydney against New Zealand in the first official rugby union international between the countries. Rugby league careerHe became an early convert to the fledgling league code and played for the Ipswich club in Queensland. He was selected in the 2nd Test of 1908 against New Zealand. Five former Wallabies had debuted for the Kangaroos in the inaugural Test three weeks earlier, Hardcastle's league Test debut that day with George Watson made them the 6th and 7th Australian dual code internationals. He also played in the 3rd Test a week later. Hardcastle toured with the pioneer 1908 Kangaroos and played for Australia on six occasions though he did not play in the Tests. On his return from the tour he joined the Glebe Dirty Reds in Sydney where he played the next two seasons before retirement. WWIHardcastle served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War I. He was a Private in the 3rd Infantry Battalion seeing active service as a machine gunner. He embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on 3 June 1916 at age 42. He survived the war and was demobilised in the weeks immediately after the armistice. He died in Randwick, New South Wales on 11 July 1944. He was buried at Botany Cemetery on 13 July 1944.[2] Sources
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://www.scrum.com/australia/rugby/player/1391.html|title=Scrum.com player profile of Bill Hardcastle|publisher=Scrum.com|accessdate=12 July 2010}} {{1908-09 Kangaroo Tour squad - The First Kangaroos}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hardcastle, Bill}}2. ^Sydney Morning Herald - Funeral Notice 13/07/1944 14 : 1874 births|New Zealand rugby union players|New Zealand international rugby union players|Australian rugby league players|Dual-code rugby internationals|Australian rugby union players|Glebe rugby league players|Australia national rugby league team players|Australian soldiers|Australian military personnel of World War I|1944 deaths|Australia international rugby union players|Queensland rugby league team players|Rugby union flankers |
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