Ernie Freeman | |
Birth Date: | 7 November 1922 |
Birth Place: | Sydney, Australia |
Death Place: | Eastwood, Sydney, Australia |
Height: | 6 ft 2 in |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1946 |
Repcaps1: | 2 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Ernie Freeman (7 November 1922 — 1 July 1977) was an Australian rugby union international.[1]
A native of Sydney, Freeman played his rugby for Drummoyne, debuting in first-grade in 1941.[2] [3]
Freeman, a forward, began his representative career as a lock in the New South Wales team. He gained a place on the Wallabies squad for the 1946 tour of New Zealand after playing as a prop for "The Rest" in the selection trials. In the 1st All Blacks Test at Carisbrook, Freeman came onto the field as a replacement prop for the injured Eric Tweedale, to gain his first Wallabies cap. He was in the starting XV for the Test against NZ Maori, again as a prop.[3]