Sid Riley
Appearance
Birth name | Sidney Austin Riley[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 18 April 1878||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Auckland, NZ[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 31 March 1964[1] | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Auckland | ||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Sidney Austin Riley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sidney Austin Riley (18 April 1878 – 31 March 1964) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Riley, a centre, was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and claimed one international rugby cap for Australia, against New Zealand, at Sydney, on 15 August 1903. He also played rugby league in a match for New Zealand against Auckland and played for Auckland several times and was a member of the Ponsonby rugby club and Ponsonby United rugby league club.
References
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- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- Auckland rugby league team players
- Ponsonby Ponies players
- 1878 births
- 1964 deaths
- Rugby union players from Auckland
- Rugby union centres
- New Zealand emigrants to Australia
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- Australian rugby union biography stubs