Peter Johnson (rugby)
| Full name | Peter George Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 13 September 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 12 July 2016 (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sydney Boys High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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Eastern Suburbs Sydney Uni Randwick |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1959-71 | New South Wales | () | |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1959-71 | Australia | 42 | (0) |
Peter George Johnson (29 July 1937 – 12 July 2016) was an Australian national representative rugby union player for Australia. He enjoyed a long state and national representative career throughout the entire 1960s decade and made ninety-two national appearances for his country. He captained the Australian side in five Test matches.
Schooled at Waverley Public in Sydney's east, Johnson gained entry to Sydney Boys High School and learnt his rugby from the former rugby league international Frank O'Rourke. He was selected in the GPS 2nd XV in his last year of high school. He started his senior rugby at the Eastern Suburbs club, then moved Randwick and then played at Sydney Uni for a spell. Back at Randwick he deputised at hooker behind the first-grade rake Jim Brown who was also the Wallaby incumbent. Johnson was selected out of second-grade to trial for the 1957–58 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France but did not make the squad.
Johnson started featuring in representative sides from 1958 playing for South Harbour and for the Australian Barbarians against the visiting New Zealand Maori. That year he was selected in the squad for the 1958 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand, he played in five matches but no Tests. Howell asserts that Johnson made an affable tourist, was witty and humorous and was welcomed in the rugby tour environment.
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