| Max Carpenter | |
| Full Name: | Macquarie Gordon Carpenter |
| Birth Date: | 17 April 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Trangie, NSW, Australia |
| Position: | Wing |
| Repyears1: | 1938 |
| Repcaps1: | 2 |
| Reppoints1: | 20 |
| Max Carpenter | |
| Australianopendoublesresult: | 1R (1930) |
Macquarie Gordon "Max" Carpenter (17 April 1911 — 28 June 1988) was an Australian rugby union international.
Carpenter, born in Trangie, New South Wales, attended Randwick Intermediate High School and was a state schoolboys rugby league representative. He also played Linton Cup tennis for his state, notably beating Adrian Quist in 1929.[1] [2]
A speedy three-quarter, Carpenter started his rugby career in Western Australia after he had to move to Perth in 1930 for employment.[2] His Wallabies caps came later while he was based in Melbourne, where he played for Footscray. Selected by the Wallabies in 1938 as a winger and goal-kicker, Carpenter contributed 20 of his team's 23 points in his two Bledisloe Cup appearances, including a two try performance in Brisbane. He was on the 1939–40 tour of Britain and Ireland that was abandoned two days after the team's arrival on account of the war.[1]
Carpenter coached Sydney clubs Drummoyne and Parramatta in the immediate post war period.[3]