Garth Jones
Rugby player
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Garth Glennie Jones (18 November 1931 — 22 March 1993) was an Australian rugby union international.[1]
Full nameGarth Glennie Jones
Born18 November 1931
Childers, QLD, Australia
Died22 March 1993 (aged 61)
Position
Wing
| Full name | Garth Glennie Jones | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 18 November 1931 Childers, QLD, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 March 1993 (aged 61) | ||||||||||||||||
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Born in Childers, Jones learnt his rugby at Brisbane Boys' College.[2]
Jones, a red-haired GPS winger, was capped 12 times for the Wallabies. On the 1953 tour of South Africa, he scored the winning try against the Springboks in Cape Town, running the length of the field to put the Wallabies in front with two minutes remaining.[3] His final Wallabies appearance in 1956 was against the Springboks in Sydney.[2]