Clarrie Prentice

Clarrie Prentice
	File:Clarrie Prentice. 1923.jpg Clarrie Prentice. 1923
Birth name	Clarence Warwick Prentice
Date of birth	1 July 1891
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales
Date of death	10 March 1948
Place of death	Concord, New South Wales
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	prop
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
	Western Suburbs RFC
International career
Years	Team
1914	Wallabies

Clarence Warwick Prentice (1 July 1891 – 10 March 1948) was an Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer who represented his country at both sports - a dual-code rugby international. He is the younger brother of fellow Wests player Ward Prentice.

Rugby union career

Prentice played rugby union with the Western Suburbs Rugby Club in Sydney and represented with the Wallabies as a prop in 1914 against the All Blacks.

Rugby league career

In 1915 Clarrie and his brother Archie joined the Western Suburbs Rugby League Club.

His international rugby league debut against New Zealand in Wellington on 23 August 1919 alongside Claud O'Donnell saw them become Australia's 20th and 21st dual code rugby internationals. It wasn't until 18 years later that Doug McLean jnr would become the next Australian dual representative.

Prentice was selected on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He played in all three Tests of the tour and in 22 other tour matches for Australia.

He coached Western Suburbs in the 1927 NSWRFL season.^[2]

Sources

Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney
Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League, Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Scrum.com player profile of Clarrie Prentice". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
^ "Western Suburbs Magpies First Grade Players". Wests Magpies.

[scrum-1] "Scrum.com player profile of Clarrie Prentice". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.

[2] "Western Suburbs Magpies First Grade Players". Wests Magpies.

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