Daniel Carroll (rugby union)

Dan Carroll (actually Daniel Brendan Carroll, born November 17, 1887 in Melbourne, Australia, † August 5, 1956 in New Orleans, United States ) was an Australian- American rugby union player and coach. He was. Both the Australian (1908 ) as well as with the U.S. Selection (1920 ) Rugby Olympic champion, the first man, who won gold for two different nations He also was coach of both U.S. winning teams in Olympic rugby tournaments (1920, 1924).

Biography

Dan Carroll grew up in Sydney, where he played for the St Aloysius College and Uniteams from the University of Sydney as well as for the club St George. After good performances for the selection of New South Wales against Queensland and an Anglo- Welsh selection he was in 1908 - in the squad of the first selection of Australia, the original Wallabies, for a tour in Europe and North America - the youngest player. On this tour, he scored 15 attempts, including two in the final game of the Olympic rugby tournament. He got his first international cap against Wales.

1912 Carroll was appointed again in a Wallaby tour squad, this time it went to British Columbia and the United States. Carroll remained after the conclusion of the tour in California to study at Stanford University geology. In 1913, he was already playing for the U.S. team, his first international match was a crushing defeat 51:3 against the All Blacks.

During the First World War, Carroll served as Captain of the Infantry of the U.S. Army. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. After the Allied victory, he played rugby again for his old home, in the team of the Australian of the ANZAC at the King 's Cup.

Carroll was a player coach of the rugby team at Stanford University when he was appointed in 1920 in the cadre of Eagles for the Olympic rugby tournament. As a player, coach of the Eagles, he won the Olympic gold medal. In 1924, he was reactivated as a coach for the tournament in Paris.