Dooee Tanner
Appearance
Birth name | William Henry Tanner[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 2 March 1870 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Paddington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 29 December 1938 | (aged 68)||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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William Henry "Dooee" Tanner (2 March 1870 – 29 December 1938[3]) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Tanner, a prop and hooker, was born in England and moved to Queensland as a child. He claimed two international rugby caps for Australia. His Test debut was against Great Britain at Sydney on 24 June 1899, the inaugural rugby Test match played by an Australian national representative side.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/1899_Australian_Team.jpg/350px-1899_Australian_Team.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Queensland_team_1899.jpg/350px-Queensland_team_1899.jpg)
Published references
[edit]- Collection (1995) Gordon Bray presents The Spirit of Rugby, Harper Collins Publishers Sydney
- Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead - Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Scrum.com player profile of Dooee Tanner". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "Country caps / Australia". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- ^ "William Henry Tanner". www.classicwallabies.com.au. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- ^ "The BattleStained Queensland Team AS Photographed Immediately After The Match" (Photograph with caption.). The Queenslander. Brisbane, Australia. 8 July 1899. p. 73 S. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
- ^ "International Football". The Queenslander. Brisbane, Australia. 8 July 1899. p. 73 S. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
Categories:
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- 1938 deaths
- 1870 births
- Rugby union props
- Rugby union hookers
- Rugby union players from the City of Westminster
- British emigrants to Australia
- People from Paddington
- Queensland rugby union team players
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- Australian rugby union biography stubs