Rugby player
| Full name | John Edward Francis Coolican | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1953-09-27) 27 September 1953 (age 71) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
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John Edward Francis Coolican AM (born 27 September 1953) is an Australian former rugby union international.
Coolican was born in Sydney but raised in Bourke and boarded at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview.
A loosehead prop, Coolican gained four Wallabies caps during the early 1980s. His first cap came in Christchurch on the 1982 tour of New Zealand, forming a front row with two other debutants, Andy McIntyre and Bruce Malouf. He received a further three caps on the 1983 tour of Italy and France.
Coolican, an orthodontist by profession, is a former President of the NSWRU. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to orthodontics and rugby union.
See also
References
- "Wallabies by a point - again". The Canberra Times. 5 August 1982. p. 1 (Sports Section) – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "John Edward Francis Coolican". classicwallabies.com.au.
- "Queens Birthday Honours celebrates University community". The University of Sydney. 16 June 2021.
External links
- John Coolican at ESPNscrum
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- Members of the Order of Australia
- Australian dentists
- Rugby union executives
- Rugby union props
- Rugby union players from New South Wales
- People from Bourke, New South Wales
- People educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen