Christopher McKivat

Unique in history He captained the 1908 Summer Olympics gold medal-winning Wallaby side and was the eighth captain of the Australian national rugby league team, leading them in all three Tests of the 1911–12 tour. Thus, he captained his country to victory on tour in two different rugby codes.

Rugby union career McKivat was born in Cumnock, New South Wales and educated by the Patrician Brothers in Orange. He played country rugby union with the "Our Boys" club in Orange and was regularly selected in country representative teams until he was 26. he moved to Sydney to join the Glebe Rugby Club in 1905 and played five-eighth for four seasons outside Fred Wood who would later be vice-captain of the 1908–09 Wallabies.

Chris McKivat is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 67.

His representative career ended at age 32 with that Ashes success, and in retirement, he became the first of the game's high-profile non-playing coaches. He coached Glebe, Wests, and Norths in the following years, including North Sydney's premiership winning sides of 1921 and 1922. A large funeral took place at St. James Church, Forest Lodge, New South Wales, and he was buried at Botany Cemetery.

Accolades The Heads/Middleton reference describes him as quiet, good humoured man off the football field, always immaculately dressed and often puffing on a cigar but a lesson in contrasts on the field – voluble, hard-driving and relentlessly barking orders.

In 2005, McKivat was admitted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame. In August 2006 he was named as coach of the North Sydney Bears' Team of the Century. In February 2008, McKivat was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.