Roger Barton (rugby)
Encyclopedia
Roger Fernival Darvall Barton (c. 1876 – c. 1949) was a rugby union
player who represented Australia
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Barton, a flanker
, was born in Bathurst, NSW and claimed international rugby cap for Australia. His debut game was against Great Britain, at Sydney, on 5 August 1899.
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
player who represented Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Barton, a flanker
Flanker (rugby union)
A flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union. Flankers play in the forwards, and are generally classified as either blindside, or openside flankers; numbers six and seven respectively. The name comes from their position in a scrum in which they flank each set of forwards...
, was born in Bathurst, NSW and claimed international rugby cap for Australia. His debut game was against Great Britain, at Sydney, on 5 August 1899.