Phil Hawthorne
| Full name | Phillip Francis Hawthorne | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 24 October 1943 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 September 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||
| School | Newcastle Boys High | ||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Accountant, Real Estate | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Five-eighth | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Fly Half | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1968-71 1972 |
St George Easts |
56 1 |
(126) (0) |
| State Representation | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1970 | New South Wales | 2 | (0) |
| National teams | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1970 | Australia | 3 | (6) |
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| Years | Club / team | ||
| 1962-1966 1967 |
Wanderers Newcastle Randwick DRUFC |
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1962-1967 | New South Wales | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1962-1967 | Australia | 21 | |
Phil Hawthorne (1943–1994) was an Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer – a dual-code international. He represented the Wallabies in twenty-one Tests and the Kangaroos in three Tests. He captained Australia in rugby league the 3rd Test of the 1970 Ashes series. His mother was killed in a car accident in Newcastle when he was 14.
Hawthorne was born in 1943 in Newcastle, New South Wales. From the Wanderers Rugby Union Club in Newcastle, he first represented for the Wallabies age 18 as Fly-half. For the next five years he was a consistent selection for Wallaby Tests and tours and formed a formidable partnership with scrum-half Ken Catchpole.
On the 1966–67 Tour of England Hawthorne played in 5 Tests and set a new tour point scoring record of 26 points (6 field goals, 2 penalties and 2 conversions). In 1967 he joined Randwick to pair with Catchpole at club level and he played further Tests that year.
In 1968 Hawthorne accepted a then record $30,000 contract to switch to the professional code and join the St. George Dragons. He played fifty-six games for the Dragons from 1968 to 1971 at Five-eighth before he joined Eastern Suburbs for his final season in 1972.
In 1969 he appeared as a guest player for Auckland in a match against the New Zealand Kiwis to mark the New Zealand Rugby League's diamond jubilee.
Phil Hawthorne's international rugby league debut against Great Britain in Brisbane on 6 June 1970 alongside John Brass saw them together become Australia's 32nd and 33rd dual code rugby internationals. He played all three Tests against Great Britain in 1970 and was captain in the 3rd Test with Langlands and Sattler injured and unavailable. He is named on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 441.
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