• John Edward Thornett, MBE (30 March 1935 – 4 January 2019) was an Australian rugby union player, who played 37 Tests for Australia between 1955 and 1967...
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  • three sports Jan Thornett, married name of Jan Andrew (born 1943), Australian butterfly swimmer and Olympic medallist John Thornett (1935–2019), Australian...
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  • Richard Norman Thornett (23 September 1940 – 12 October 2011) was one of five Australians to have represented their country in three sports. He was an...
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  • sportsmen. John Thornett was a Wallabies captain who played 37 rugby union Tests for Australia over a distinguished 13-year career from 1955. Dick Thornett represented...
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    battle (Squadron Leader John Hart, Flight Lieutenant Archie McInnes, Flight Lieutenant Maurice Mounsdon, Air Vice-Marshal John Thornett Lawrence, Wing Commander...
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  • five Tests and thirty-one minor tour matches. Under the captaincy of John Thornett they toured UK, Ireland, France and Canada winning nineteen matches...
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  • 1963 he again toured to South Africa playing in all three Tests under John Thornett as captain. Playing at scrum-half, partnered with Phil Hawthorne at...
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  • Ella (2013) George Gregan (2013) Players Thomas Lawton, Snr (2013) John Thornett (2013) Michael Lynagh (2014) Tim Horan (2015) Tom Richards (2015) Daniel...
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    "Jim Lenehan". ESPN. Retrieved 28 November 2022. Howell 2005, p. 185. "John Thornett". ESPN. Retrieved 28 November 2022. Howell 2005, p. 189. "Greg Davis"...
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  • John Anthony Eales AM (born 27 June 1970) is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby...
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  • Taylor and Johnny Taylor; brothers Dick Thornett and John Thornett; brothers. A further brother, Ken Thornett, represented Australia at rugby league Colin...
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    Hall member to have played multiple forward positions is 2013 inductee John Thornett, an Australian utility forward who played at flanker, number 8, lock...
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    ISBN 0-09-182963-1. FitzSimons, Peter (2001). John Eales: The Biography. ABC Books. ISBN 0-7333-1012-5. FitzSimons, Peter (2005). John Eales: The Biography. ABC Books...
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    defeating France 35 to 12 in the final. After the international retirement of John Eales in 2001, Gregan became the Wallabies captain. He was an obvious choice...
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  • October 2018. Robinson, Georgina (19 October 2018). "David Pocock wins 2018 John Eales Medal in a landslide". The Sydney Morning Herald. Eddie Bonis at ESPNscrum...
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  • Ross Geoff Shaw Tony Shaw Sir Nicholas Shehadie Andrew Slack John Solomon  John Thornett Johnnie Wallace Jon White Colin Windon In 2017, Rugby Australia...
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  • World Cup-winning captains and coaches through the 2007 World Cup (minus John Eales, inducted in 2007), and finally other iconic players of the World Cup...
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  • Brockhoff, Tony Miller, Nick Shehadie, Eddie Stapleton, Ken Catchpole, John Thornett, Peter Crittle and Ron Graham. In 1963, the Sydney Rugby Union was established...
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  • 2005 Tom Richards Colin Windon John Thornett Ken Catchpole Mark Ella 2006 Cyril Towers Sir Nicholas Shehadie John Hipwell 2007 Tom Lawton, Snr Mark Loane...
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  • tournament's inception in 1987 through 2007 (minus the previously inducted John Eales) Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999)...
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    2005 Tom Richards Colin Windon John Thornett Ken Catchpole Mark Ella 2006 Cyril Towers Sir Nicholas Shehadie John Hipwell 2007 Tom Lawton, Snr Mark Loane...
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  • ISBN 0-09-182963-1. FitzSimons, Peter (2001). John Eales: The Biography. ABC Books. ISBN 0-7333-1012-5. FitzSimons, Peter (2005). John Eales: The Biography. ABC Books...
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  • Peter Rothwell, Jim Cross and John Carroll added their names to North's honour roll in the 1950s and by 1960 John Thornett and Rod Phelps had joined Norths...
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  • player John Solomon – rugby union player, state and national representative versatile back Johnny Taylor – rugby union and cricket player John Thornett – rugby...
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    2005 Tom Richards Colin Windon John Thornett Ken Catchpole Mark Ella 2006 Cyril Towers Sir Nicholas Shehadie John Hipwell 2007 Tom Lawton, Snr Mark Loane...
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  • (Newington) John Thornett (High) Richard Tombs (TAS) Lachlan Turner (Newington) Henari Veratau (Scots) Ben Volavola (Newington) Phil Waugh (Shore) John Williams...
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  • commencement of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby, buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding skills of...
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    to New Zealand that same year he was the squad's vice-captain with John Thornett commencing his leadership ascendancy at that time. Lenehan played in...
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    drop-goal in a match. The climax of the commercial features then-captain John Eales, as well as Matt Burke, Kearns and MacQueen each saying "Don't kick...
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  • highlights of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby, buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding skills of...
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